During a record-breaking flight through the sun’s corona in Dec. 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured the closest-ever ...

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The probe captured images and other data from within the sun's corona during a record-breaking approach last year.

Now, NASA has released remarkable video captured during the historic flyby, offering the closest views of the sun ever ...

These extraordinary visuals have offered scientists their closest‑ever look at where space weather originates, helping to ...

The newly released images from a December flyby are so detailed that scientists can see explosions and the flow of solar winds.

From one perspective, the Sun is a benevolent orb of plasma and its warmth makes Earth habitable and has kept it habitable for billions of years, allowing complex things like human beings to evolve.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, which has been soaring through space since it launched in 2018, has taken the closest-ever images ...

This side-by-side comparison shows Parker Solar Probe's image of the nightside of Venus from July 2020 (left) with false-colour radar imagery from the Magellan spacecraft in the early 1990s (right).

This video, made from images taken by Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR instrument during its record-breaking flyby of the Sun on Dec. 25, 2024, shows the solar wind racing out from the Sun’s outer ...

On the Parker Solar Probe's second pass through the corona, on perihelion 9, the spacecraft flew by structures called coronal streamers — the bright features moving upward in the upper images ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will make its closest-ever flyby of the sun on December 24, 2024, passing within 3.8 million miles of the solar surface at a speed of 430,000 mph.