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 ...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe became the fastest object ever built when it flew through the Sun’s outer atmosphere at more than 630,000 km/h. Protected by a heat shield designed to survive temperatures ...
Imagine an enormous telescope with a sun shield the size of a tennis court that sends back proof of a lemon-shaped exoplanet raining diamonds. Then, picture a flying object that can hurtle toward the ...
A Southwest Research Institute-led study found that protons and heavy ions react differently to solar magnetic reconnection events, revealing a more complex magnetic engine powering the solar wind.