A NASA spacecraft made history and is safe after making the closest-ever approach to the sun. On Tuesday, the Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the sizzling solar atmosphere and passed within a ...

A new NASA mission to map the solar wind has returned some of its first images from its position in low Earth orbit. The ...

The biggest rainbow in the solar system was just captured by newly-launched spacecraft as NASA scientists study the sun and ...

NASA said on Friday that its Parker Solar Probe was "safe" and operating normally after successfully completing the closest-ever approach to the sun by any human-made object. The spacecraft passed ...

The large golden aura is formed from the incoming light reflected off the sun-side of the occulter, a device that blocks the ...

A NASA probe ventured closer to the sun than any spacecraft in history on Christmas Eve — and it whirled by at astounding speeds that also made it the fastest thing ever made by humans.

NASA's pioneering Parker Solar Probe made history Tuesday, flying closer to the sun than any other spacecraft, with its heat shield exposed to scorching temperatures topping 930 degrees Celsius ...

Next month, NASA will get an up-close view of the solar activity as the Parker Solar Probe makes its closest-ever approach to the sun. The sun is awake. In recent months, Earth’s star has ramped ...

A seperate NASA mission to study the sun also launched with SPHEREx on the same SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. In the weeks ahead, SPHEREx will begin its two-year mission to scour hundreds of millions of ...

Our excitable sun kicked out a solar flare on Thursday that's the biggest since 2017. The eruption of energy from our closest star could possibly trigger spectacular auroras. NASA's Solar Dynamics ...

An i mage shared to Facebook in March 2025 claiming to show "the most clearest picture of the sun ... Taken by NASA" garnered more than 266,000 reactions on Facebook at the time of this writing.