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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe plunged into the sun’s atmosphere to capture the granular details of how its solar wind is made. A NASA spacecraft has skimmed through the sun’s hellish atmosphere to discover a mysterious source of solar wind. Away from the sun, the solar wind is a sloshing spray …

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope made another out-of-this-world discovery: A giant red planet outside the solar system. Nasa’s telescope has detected ‘turbulent’ cloud skies of sand in the atmosphere of a huge exoplanet that orbits two stars over a 10,000-year period. The study is published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. …

The huge X2.2 solar flare erupted from a new sunspot on the face of the sun. A massive solar flare erupted from the sun on Friday (Feb. 17) as the Earth was under a geomagnetic storm watch from flares earlier in the week. The huge solar flare, which registered as …

A huge eruption on the surface of the sun may have sent a solar storm hurtling towards Earth. Scientists are now working to determine if a potentially disruptive cloud of solar particles is headed toward Earth after a strong solar flare erupted from the sun late on Wednesday night. The …

A NASA spacecraft became the first to “touch the sun,” scientists announced Tuesday — a long-awaited milestone and a potential giant leap in understanding the sun’s influence on the solar system. The Parker Solar Probe successfully flew through the sun’s corona, or upper atmosphere, in April to sample particles and …

Using a variety of probes including the new Solar Orbiter, NASA and the ESA have captured multiple solar eruptions, made up of billions of tons of plasma, in unprecedented detail. NASA and the European Space Agency launched the Solar Orbiter probe in February 2020 and it made its first close …

The Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope on Hawaii has released pictures that show features as small as 30km across. This is remarkable when set against the scale of our star, which has a diameter of about 1.4 million km and is 149 million km from Earth. The cell-like structures are …

NASA’s the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft has recently entered the orbit around the asteroid Bennu, which is now 70 million miles (110 million kilometers) from Earth. NASA has captured an image of the 500-meter wide asteroid Bennu using its high tech Osiris-Rex spacecraft, according to …