NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the infrared glow of an ancient supernova's light echo, revealing ...
Icarus has nothing on NASA. The space agency’s Parker Solar ... we can better understand its impacts throughout our solar system, including on the technology we use daily on Earth and in space ...
"The data that will come down from the spacecraft will be fresh information about a place that we, as humanity, have never ...
"Some of the extreme ultraviolet light above active regions flickers erratically for a few hours before a solar flare," ...
NASA researchers say this mission can provide more insight into those solar events, too. “I think it's exciting because we have an opportunity to use our sun and our solar system as a local ...
You can follow Parker’s landmark moment on NASA’s Eyes On The Solar System page. In one of humankind’s most impressive feats of space exploration, Tuesday, Dec. 24 saw a heavily armored NASA ...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has survived an up-close encounter with the sun, officially coming closer to the fiery star than any other spacecraft before it. The record-breaking solar approach took ...
The probe accelerated to 430,000 mph, faster than any spacecraft has ever flown, traveling to within 3.8 million miles of the star’s surface.
But on Christmas Eve, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flew around the sun. At around 6:53 a.m. EST on Tuesday, the probe flew within 3.8 million miles of our solar system’s beacon—closer than any ...