A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

A Nasa spacecraft has made history by surviving the closest-ever approach to the Sun. Scientists received a signal from the Parker Solar Probe just before midnight on Thursday after it had been ...

The fastest human-made object is hurtling toward the sun at this very moment, approaching speeds of 430,000 mph — and on December 24, it's scheduled to make history. NASA's Parker Solar Probe ...

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) recently passed within 8 million miles of the Sun, capturing the attention of astronomers. Observed by NASA and ESA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), the comet ...

NASA could make this Christmas Eve one to remember as its pioneering Parker solar probe is poised to make its closest-ever approach to the Sun. The spacecraft is plunging into the star’s outer ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released an audio-visual representation of solar activity over the last three years, pulling data from its Solar Orbiter probe, which it runs with NASA.

NASA has broken the record as its pioneering Parker solar probe made the closest-ever approach to the Sun on Christmas Eve. December 24 saw the Parker Solar Probe go within 3.8 million miles of ...

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NASA received an all-clear message from Parker on Thursday night confirming it survived the journey. Launched in 2018 to get a close-up look at the Sun, Parker has since flown straight through its ...