NASA has had incredible success with its solar missions. On December 14, 2021, NASA's Parker Solar Probe became the first ...

This low-cost mission is still only getting started, and it's taking bigger risks than typical big-ticket NASA missions.

For the first time, scientists have created detailed, 2D maps of the sun's outermost atmosphere. This feat was accomplished ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has generated the first continuous, two-dimensional maps of the Sun's outer atmosphere, revealing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nour Rawafi, a project scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, explained that there had been previous ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA’s ESCAPADE mission launched in 2025 to study Mars’ magnetic field and how solar wind has stripped away the planet’s atmosphere over time ...

The Sun exhibited unpredictable behavior with two strong solar flares in late November and early December 2025. These events, captured by NASA's Solar ...

NASA monitors MAVEN spacecraft after December 6 signal loss, coordinating recovery with Deep Space Network. Mars solar conjunction from December 29 to January 16 will pause communications.