The sun is taking center stage with recent solar flare activity sparking modest space weather tomorrow, with an added metaphorical selfie as NASA recently released the first-ever images of the sun’s ...

The sun is an incomprehensibly gigantic, constantly roiling nuclear furnace—but some days are even busier than others. Based ...

Not everyone gets a chance to put on a space suit, but you can still be an important part of NASA’s human space exploration ...

This article has been updated to reflect a change in the launch day/time. A suite of three missions which will study the Sun’s influence on our Earth and solar system are set to launch next week. NASA ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has directly observed magnetic reconnection in the Sun’s atmosphere for the first time, confirming decades-old theories about solar explosions. This discovery bridges ...

NASA has been slowly working the Parker Solar Probe closer and closer to the Sun ever since its launch in 2018. The probe, which is heralded as the fastest object humans have ever made, has broken ...

On a winter night in Chile in July 2025, astronomer Larry Denneau’s automated pipeline at the ATLAS (Asteroid ...

NASA has pushed closer to the Sun than ever before — and what they’re seeing isn’t fully understood. Using the Parker Solar ...

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Three NASA missions are set to launch on a single SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to study the Sun's influence. The primary mission, IMAP, will travel one million miles from Earth to study the heliosphere and ...