When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An image of stray sunlight and the moon taken on April 27 by the PUNCH mission's Narrow Field ...

Icarus may be known in Greek mythology as the one who flew too close to the sun. But today, it's NASA's Parker Solar Probe that turned the daring journey into reality. On Christmas Eve, the car-sized ...

Our medium-sized star is experiencing intense activity. Fortunately, this solar activity is normal, but nevertheless spectacular. The NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) — which has been in space ...

‘No human-made object has ever passed this close to a star,’ says one of the mission’s operators. This image made available by NASA shows an artist's rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching ...

A solar prominence imaged by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in extreme ultraviolet light, with Earth added for scale. Solar prominences, sometimes called filaments, are massive loops of hot plasma ...