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The 'helicity barrier' has been directly confirmed, offering new insights into the heating and formation of the solar wind.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has set yet another record by taking the closest images of the Sun anyone has ever seen.
But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...
By flying closer to the Sun than ever, Parker Solar Probe reveals the chaotic birthplace of solar wind and space storms, ...
In its closest-ever dive into the Sun’s atmosphere, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has returned stunning new images and data that ...
The object is big – possibly as wide 12 miles, larger than the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs – and is speeding ...
NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft delivered groundbreaking data that expanded our understanding of the solar system’s outermost edge,a region scientists call the "cosmic coastline." This is ...
NASA has released unprecedented images of the Sun. The Parker Solar Probe captured these during a December 2024 flyby. It flew closer than any spacecraft before. The images reveal solar activity like ...
The US space agency reveals highly-detailed imagery of massive plumes of solar material spewing out into space.
We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.
The path of totality will carve an arc of darkness across the surface of our planet – at the height of the August tourist ...
NASA's leadership change comes at a pivotal moment for the agency, which is already bracing for potentially severe funding ...