With the launch of Artemis II planned in a few weeks, NASA is ready to monitor the sun during the mission in order to protect ...

As four astronauts travel around the moon on NASA's Artemis II mission, they will venture beyond Earth's protective magnetic field. The crew's spacecraft, Orion, will carry and protect them as they ...

Citizen scientists reviewing NASA data discovered unusually high Solar flare rates, helping researchers better understand the ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 27th close approach to the Sun on March 11, again matching its record distance of 3.8 million miles (6.2 million kilometers) from the solar surface.

With the Artemis II mission launching its astronauts outside Earth's magnetic field for the first time on 1 April 2026 in over 50 years, NASA is setting up a 24/7 solar watch to monitor potential high ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Sixty years after NASA set the goal, and three years after its Parker Solar Probe launched, the spacecraft has become the first to "touch the sun." The Parker Solar Probe has ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a huge filament eruption in multiple wavelengths. Credit: Space.com | footage ...

A full-scale model of Parker Solar Probe, the history-making Johns Hopkins APL-built spacecraft that has flown closer to the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A haunting grin appeared on the sun as bright active regions and dark coronal holes combined to ...

NASA’s twin ESCAPADE spacecraft will uncover how the Sun stripped Mars of its atmosphere. Mars is a very different world ...

NASA astronauts will conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station to prepare for the installation of two ...

NASA’s DART mission proved that a spacecraft can nudge an asteroid system in space, offering a real test of planetary defense. NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft changed the ...