A new series of images from the Solar Orbiter spacecraft is giving scientists the clearest view yet of the sun's volatile lower atmosphere-and unlocking critical insights into the forces behind ...

The images were collected when the Parker Solar Probe made its closest approach to the sun on Dec. 24. At 3.8 million miles away, it flew through the solar atmosphere at 430,000 mph — a record ...

This was the Solar Orbiter mission’s first high-angle observation campaign of the sun, conducted at an angle of 15 degrees below the solar equator. Just a few days after snapping these images ...

Key Takeaways NASA’s Parker Solar Probe—designed, built, and operated at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab—has taken the closest ever images to the sun, captured just 3.8 million miles from the ...

Scientists announced on Friday (April 18) that the newest solar investigator in town has captured its first-light images — or should I say the newest solar investigators. That is, this NASA sun ...

NASA released the closest-ever images of the sun’s atmosphere. CNN’s Jackie Wattles explains what scientists could learn from them.

By studying its polar extremes, scientists hope to gain new insights into the sun and how it behaves. And the best is yet to come — later this year, humans will get our first images of the sun ...