The development of sustainable energy sources that can satisfy the world energy demand is one of the most challenging ...

The researchers published their findings Dec. 13 in the journal Science. The sun is a gigantic ball of plasma whose charged ions swirl over its surface to create powerful magnetic fields.

The Parker Solar Probe is expected to pass within an "unprecedented" 3.86 million miles of the solar surface on Dec. 24, ...

Sun pulses with several solar flares late Christmas Day with four M-class flares from sunspots within a few hours.

Among its other discoveries, the Parker Solar Probe has also provided the first compelling evidence for the long-theorized but elusive dust-free zone around the sun, which is created by sunlight ...

Scientists also want to understand how coronal mass ejections, or large clouds of ionized gas called plasma and magnetic ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made its closest approach to the sun early Tuesday, getting within just 4% of the Earth-sun ...

“We wanted to determine how often our Sun produces superflares; however, the duration of direct solar observations is relatively short,” Valeriy Vasilyev, from the Max Planck Institute for Solar ...

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

The sun started 2025 with a bang as it fired off a powerful solar flare this morning.