Our Sun

NASA has selected a new mission to study how the Sun generates and releases giant space weather storms into planetary space.

Whether you're doing it for the nerd cred or the pie, this week on #10Things, we've got all the ways you can celebrate #PiDay with NASA.

Solar Orbiter, a new collaborative mission between ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA to study the Sun, launched on Feb. 9.

It will be a dark winter’s night when Solar Orbiter launches from Florida on its journey to the source of all light on Earth, the Sun.

Researchers using Parker Solar Probe data released a new wave of research papers in a special supplement of The Astrophysical Journal

An abridged story of solar scientific history: A genealogy of the advances that led to solar science as we know it today.

NASA is targeting Feb. 9, for the launch of Solar Orbiter, an international collaborative mission between ESA and NASA.

At 4:37 a.m. EST on Jan. 29, 2020, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe broke speed and distance records as it approached the Sun.

A new spacecraft is journeying to the Sun to snap the first pictures of the Sun’s north and south poles.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe began its fourth solar encounter on Jan. 23, at a distance of about 23.3 million miles from the Sun’s surface.

Spitzer, designed to reveal the far, cold and dusty side of the universe, made discoveries its designers never even imagined, including a previously unseen ring of Saturn.

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has observed a magnetic explosion the likes of which have never been seen before.

Nearly a year and a half into its mission, Parker Solar Probe has returned gigabytes of data on the Sun and its atmosphere.

Scientists have presented new images of the ionosphere, the dynamic region where Earth’s atmosphere meets space.

The Sun is revealing itself in dramatic detail thanks to NASA's Parker Solar Probe.

Four new papers in the journal Nature describe what scientists have learned so far from NASA's Parker Solar Probe.

On Nov. 12, 2019, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe team released scientific data collected during the spacecraft’s first two solar orbits to the general public.

From our perspective on Earth, Mercury looked like a tiny black dot gliding across the Sun’s face.This only happens about 13 times a century.

The Wind mission launched 25 years ago. Wind currently orbits at the first Lagrange point, which allows the spacecraft to face the Sun at all times.

Two robotic spacecraft orbiting the Moon today were initially known as ARTEMIS.

NASA has selected three proposals for concept studies of missions that could help us better understand the dynamic space weather system driven by the Sun that manifests near Earth.

NASA has selected two proposals to demonstrate small satellite technologies to improve science observations in deep space, which could help NASA develop better models to predict space weather events that can affect astronauts and spacecraft.

NASA has selected two proposals for concept studies that could help us better understand the fundamental nature of space and how it changes in response to planetary atmospheres, radiation from the Sun, and interstellar particles.

Since NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched on Aug. 12, 2018, Earth has made a single trip around the Sun — while Parker is into its third orbit around our star.

Earlier this year, Parker Solar Probe downlinked all of the planned science data from its first two passes by the Sun.