One of the biggest unanswered questions in solar physics may have gained an unexpected new lead. Researchers analyzing ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has flown closer to the Sun than any spacecraft in history, revealing new clues about the corona, ...

Plus, the Parker Solar Probe took another trip around the sun, solar energy overtook coal in May, and more. Here's this week's science news. NASA's Parker Solar Probe made another close pass around ...

The Sun’s outer atmosphere may have a dust problem—and that dust might be heating it up. A new study suggests that tiny charged grains near the Sun can change how energy moves through the corona, the ...

A researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has published a new study in The Astrophysical Journal suggesting that tiny charged dust ...

Parker's instruments are gathering measurements while the Sun is in an active phase of its 11-year solar cycle, a period marked by increased solar eruptions and flares.

Nasa's Parker Solar Probe completed its 28th close approach to the Sun, matching its record speed of 6,87,000 kmph while gathering groundbreaking data from the solar corona.

CHICAGO — It was 1958. Sputnik had launched only a year earlier, the first human-made object to circle the planet. But the beachball-size spacecraft had no instruments to measure anything in space.

It's exactly one year since a human-made spacecraft made the closest approach to the Sun in history. Called the Parker Solar Probe, the piece of technology came within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million ...

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On July 20, 2018, Nicky Fox, Parker Solar Probe’s project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryland, and Alex Young, associate director for science in the ...

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum welcomes two new acquisitions to the collection—the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) Pathfinder and Parker Solar Probe model. The Pathfinder is a ...