The sun, a searing hot sphere of gas primarily composed of hydrogen and helium, boasts surface and outer atmospheric ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe conducts groundbreaking studies of the Sun, revealing insights into solar winds and space weather ...

A Nasa spacecraft has made history by surviving the closest-ever approach to the Sun. Scientists received a signal from the ...

Parker Solar Probe can take measurements that help scientists better understand how the region gets so hot, trace the origin of the solar wind (a constant flow of material escaping the sun), and ...

The spacecraft survived scorching temperatures at a record proximity, and is expected to send details of its close call in ...

During the Dec. 24 sun flyby, the Parker Solar Probe will fly through the sun's corona, its super-hot outer atmosphere, to study exactly why the region is so hot and other solar phenomena.

Related: How hot is the sun? On Sept ... When the probe makes its closest approach to the sun, its solar shields will encounter temperatures approaching 2,600 degrees Fahrenheit (1,400 degrees ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe went where no mission has gone before and came within 3.8 million miles (6 million kilometers) of ...

Traveling in the solar corona, the outermost layer of the sun’s atmosphere ... is studying the corona the hard way and the hot way: flying directly into it. Precisely why the corona is so ...

"The corona is really, really hot, and we have no idea why ... "Understanding the Sun, its activity, space weather, the solar wind, is so important to our everyday lives on Earth," says Dr ...