Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

Images captured by NASA ... Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ultraviolet light before a solar flare, which could act as an early warning ...

NASA set up Parker's record-setting path back in November when the spacecraft made its final pass of Venus. The solar system's second planet has seen numerous visits by Parker, which uses the ...

“Flying this close to the Sun is a historic moment in humanity’s first mission to a star,” notes Nicky Fox, head of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA headquarters in Washington. “By studying the ...

NASA's Parker Solar ... to make before," Parker Solar Probe Project Manager Helene Winters said in a statement. "From the heat shield to the solar array cooling system, there was so much enabling ...

The two Voyager spacecraft continue to be incredibly useful to Nasa, and losing it might have meant losing some of our most important information about the very edges of our solar system.

Surging across the solar system from the sun ... long-distance power lines and transformers. NASA and solar physicists are on the case—and they just made a breakthrough. ForbesWhy America ...

who leads the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "By studying the sun up close, we can better understand its impacts throughout our solar system, including on the ...