Four San Antonio-built satellites on a NASA mission to stare at the sun have opened their eyes and tested their thrusters for the first time. Known as PUNCH, the suitcase-sized craft from Southwest ...

Five years into its mission, Solar Orbiter stuns again with this detailed view of the Sun. What you see is the Sun’s million-degree hot atmosphere, called the corona, as it looks in ultraviolet ...

PUNCH, a bold new NASA mission, has successfully taken its first images of the Sun’s corona from orbit using four ...

Solar flares accelerate energetic electrons that escape into interplanetary space, guided by the Parker spiral magnetic field ...

NASA’s PUNCH mission, designed to unravel the mysteries of the solar wind, has captured its first-light images, marking a key ...

Parker became in 2018 the first spacecraft to enter the Sun's corona, the outermost part of the star's atmosphere that can be seen during a total solar eclipse. What we're watching: During its ...

Space weather — all the winds and particles streaming off the sun — can have major impacts on Earth and human infrastructure. In the worst cases, this can mean dangerous disruption to our ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe successfully completed its second science-gathering flyby of the sun, the space agency announced on Tuesday (March 25). | Credit: Steve Gribben/NASA/Johns Hopkins APL ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe scripted history with a record-breaking closest approach to the Sun on December 24. The feat was confirmed by the US space agency on Friday, December 27. NASA said its ...