A NASA mission is underway to map the heliosphere, which is a huge protective bubble around the solar system that was created by the sun.

Parker Solar Probe reached "perihelion," the nearest point to the sun in its orbit, on Dec. 13, 2025. Credit: ASA / Johns Hopkins APL / Steve Gribben illustration A NASA spacecraft is making a close ...

NASA spent roughly a billion dollars to send a car‑sized robot into the Sun’s atmosphere, and to get there it had to ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Sixty years after NASA set the goal, and three years after its Parker Solar Probe launched, the spacecraft has become the first to "touch the sun." The Parker Solar Probe has ...

NASA’s IMAP spacecraft studies charged particles, energetic neutral atoms, and magnetic fields at the heliosphere’s boundaries, providing real-time space weather data for Earth and spacecraft.

In a groundbreaking effort to study the Sun up close, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has captured unprecedented data on the source of the solar wind. A research team led by the University of Arizona has ...

New infrared observations reveal that the rare interstellar visitor known as comet 3I/ATLAS has dramatically brightened ...

Data from NASA's Parker Solar Probe has enabled astronomers to map the unssen surface of the sun's atmosphere for the first time. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

"Ultimately, this work may help scientists better predict the impact of space weather across the solar system on longer timescales than currently possible." When you purchase through links on our site ...

How does the solar wind get heated as it leaves the Sun and approaches Earth? This is what a recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters hopes t | Space ...