PUNCH consists of four small spacecraft, each about the size of a suitcase, which will work together in a constellation to study the Sun’s outer atmosphere and the solar wind. Currently at Vandenberg ...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has completed a historic milestone by traveling closer to the Sun than any spacecraft before it. The groundbreaking data it has collected is offering new insights into the ...
A new preprint paper has taken a look at what propulsion systems could deliver spacecraft to a particularly interesting area ...
A NASA mission is underway to map the heliosphere, which is a huge protective bubble around the solar system that was created by the sun.
Coronagraphs are telescopes equipped with an occulting disk to block out the overwhelming radiation emanated from the visible surface of the Sun, along with optical stops and filters that are ...
NASA spent roughly a billion dollars to send a car‑sized robot into the Sun’s atmosphere, and to get there it had to accelerate to about 400,000 mph, faster than any spacecraft in history. That ...
The probe will have to withstand heat and radiation never previously experienced by any spacecraft, but the mission will also address questions that couldn't be answered before. Understanding the sun ...
NASA announced on Wednesday that the agency's "unprecedented" mission to "touch the sun" will be named after the renowned astrophysicist Eugene Parker, whose work has revolutionized scientists' ...