This week, momentum is building around nuclear fusion, as tech investment and breakthroughs suggest it may arrive sooner than ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flew just 3.8 million miles from the Sun, capturing the closest-ever images of its corona and solar wind. The data provides new insights into CMEs, magnetic fields, and space ...

Cameras on the ground need strong solar filters to photograph things like an eclipse, yet NASA has made a camera that was ...

An artist's concept of the TRACERS mission, which will help research magnetic reconnection and its effects in Earth’s ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made the closest flyby of the sun ever made by a spacecraft in Dec. 25. See the views it captured ...

Scientists are using the images and data collected by the probe to understand the sun’s impact on Earth and the solar system.

On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, the Johns Hopkins APL-built Parker Solar Probe captured stunning images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. Taken closer to the Sun than we’ve ever ...

Two Stars in Solar Science It takes a lot of work to make space missions happen. Hundreds or even thousands of experts work as a team to put together the spacecraft. Then it has to be tested in ...

Artist's rendering of the Parker Solar Probe navigating through the Sun's corona in 2018, designed to assist scientists in ...

Eruptions of plasma piling atop one another, solar wind streaming out in exquisite detail -- the closest-ever images of our ...

Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million ...

If it weren't for the new budget, New Horizons could keep exploring the outer reaches of the solar system into the 2030s.