Fast solar wind from a massive coronal hole in the sun could trigger dazzling auroral displays as geomagnetic activity is ...

On August 12, 2018, NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe, a spacecraft designed to study the Sun and its environment. Since ...

Almost no one ever writes about the Parker Solar Probe anymore.

In a groundbreaking first, the Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed its closest encounter with the Sun. So where does this plucky probe go from here?

The Parker Solar Probe, traveling at 430,000 mph, reaches 3.8 million miles from the Sun. Scientists now wait for a signal and proof of life.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe went where no mission has gone before and came within 3.8 million miles (6 million kilometers) of ...

Astrophysicists now await a data transmission that will improve understanding of the sun's solar wind and the heat of its corona.

Coronal holes are cooler, darker regions in the sun's corona, as described by NOAA. These areas allow solar wind to escape at higher speeds. When this wind interacts with Earth's magnetosphere, it can ...

"This close-up study of the Sun allows Parker Solar Probe to take measurements that help scientists better understand how material in this region gets heated to millions of degrees, trace the origin ...

Forget the cautionary tale of Icarus. NASA's daring Parker Solar Probe is gearing up to fly into the Sun to glean the secrets of our star's megahot winds, Ars Technica reports. Ever since it launched ...

The spacecraft survived scorching temperatures at a record proximity, and is expected to send details of its close call in the new year.

Its mission is helping solar scientists better understand the sun, whose magnetized material creates solar wind in the solar system. This so-called space weather ultimately interacts with Earth ...