NASA's Parker Solar Probe has once again made history, completing its closest-ever approach to the sun on December 24, 2024. Hurtling through the solar corona at an astonishing 430,000 miles per ...

PUNCH's main goal is to study how the Sun's corona transforms into solar wind, a stream of charged particles that flows ...

The Parker Solar Probe is expected to pass within an "unprecedented" 3.86 million miles of the solar surface on Dec. 24, according to NASA. "It's about to be on its closest approach to the sun ...

According to NASA’s ongoing operations with its solar probe, the agency plans to complete a “solar landing” with the Parker spacecraft. Of course, it is worth noting that this solar ...

Close encounters: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will perform 24 orbits around the Sun with the next close solar passes occurring on 22 March and 19 June 2025 (Courtesy: NASA/APL) NASA has confirmed that ...

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben On Christmas Eve, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will come closer than ever before to "touching the sun," getting more than eight times closer than Mercury ...

A graduate research assistant at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama system, has published a paper in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics that builds on ...

Scheduled to launch on Feb. 27, NASA's PUNCH mission could revolutionize space weather forecasts, unify the solar corona and ...

In 2018 NASA sent the Parker Solar Probe to the sun to unlock some of its mysteries. Built to withstand 1,377 degrees Celsius, last December it got closer to the sun than ever before, collecting ...

NASA’s PUNCH mission will explore the connection between the sun’s corona and the solar wind using 3D imaging.

NASA warns of solar storms disrupting global tech, power grids, and satellites, urging upgrades, collaboration, and preparedness to protect a tech-dependent world.