NASA's Parker Solar Probe has beamed home its first detailed update eight days after making a record-breaking approach to the sun, the agency announced. The spacecraft confirmed its systems and ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) captured a solar prominence erupting from the sun's surface. The SDO used high-definition cameras to record the prominence on ...

A very long solar filament that had been snaking around the Sun erupted with a flourish. The bright light of a solar flare on ...

Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has successfully made the closest approach to the Sun, the American space agency has confirmed. Earlier this week, the spacecraft passed within a record-breaking 6 ...

Some NASA experts even suggested this may have ... But what people were actually seeing were large loops of plasma, known as solar prominences, towering above the solar surface.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came ...