The flare, designated X2.3, belongs to the most intense X class of flares. It was spotted by Nasa’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which is constantly monitoring the surface of the Sun in part to ...

The data used for the simulations was gathered by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Launched in 2010 on an Atlas V ...

With NASA’s fleet of heliophysics spacecraft, scientists monitor our Sun and investigate its influences throughout the solar ...

Parker is attempting to be the closest a human-made object has been to the sun. NASA is gearing up for its Parker Solar Probe to do a final flyby of Venus on Wednesday on its way to making history as ...

NASA and the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent home the highest resolution images of our sun ever captured. ESA has shared four images of the sun's surface, revealing the ...

On Nov. 6, NASA's Parker Solar Probe passed within 234 miles (376 kilometers) of Venus' surface. The purpose of this close flyby was to accomplish a gravity-assist maneuver, in which the probe ...

NASA confirmed Tuesday its sun-observing spacecraft captured the moment when the comet Atlas broke into chunks this week as it passed close to the sun. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO ...

Before that, the record was held by the Helios 2 spacecraft, which came about 27 million miles from the sun in 1976. NASA illustration of the Parker Solar Probe (main) and NASA image of Venus ...

Days after scientists unraveled new mysteries about the solar wind from its last close pass, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has just survived its latest close flyby of the sun. On June 27 the probe ...

We could see an explosion of northern lights over the next year or so. According to NASA, the sun is about to reach solar maximum, an active part of its cycle as it transitions between low and ...