In an unprecedented achievement, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has reached a historic milestone: the spacecraft has successfully ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has made its final close approach to the sun, reaching 3.86 million miles as it seeks to understand ...

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses through precise and fancy formation flying.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has flown into the Sun's corona. Structures known as coronal streamers and the Milky Way can be seen in the footage it captured. Credit: Space.com | NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Na ...

It's ironic, then, that "we know so little about the star at the center of our solar ... Probe, or IMAP, involves a spacecraft built at APL in partnership with scientists and engineers from 25 ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole in March, which were ...

The craft helped solar boffins to discover that Sol’s north and south magnetic poles are both on the southern side of the ...

Visuals from the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter reveal chaotic solar magnetism in the solar polar region. Even better ...

Eugene Parker, pioneer of theoretical solar and plasma astrophysics, was born June 10, 1927. Parker revolutionized the field of heliophysics, notably by first proposing the existence of the solar wind ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe detected a powerful magnetic explosion providing new data on magnetic reconnection, important to ...