On Christmas Eve of last year, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made spaceflight history, flying by the Sun at a record-setting distance of just 3.8 million miles (6.12 million kilometers) from the solar ...
Proba-3 took an image of the Sun's inner corona every five minutes during an active period in September last year.
NASA has been slowly working the Parker Solar Probe closer and closer to the Sun ever since its launch in 2018. The probe, which is heralded as the fastest object humans have ever made, has broken ...
The Sun’s inner corona appears greenish in this image taken on 23 May 2025 by the ASPIICS coronagraph aboard Proba-3, ESA’s formation-flying mission capable of creating artificial total solar eclipses ...
Jaw-dropping new images are the closest ever taken to the Sun. The latest close-ups, unveiled Thursday (10 July), were captured just 3.8 million miles from the solar surface. They reveal details ...
NASA had a special Christmas gift last year. On December 24, the Parker Solar Probe reached the closest it will ever get to the Sun. As it flew just 6.1 million kilometers (3.8 million miles) from its ...
The European Space Agency has achieved yet another "first" for humankind by capturing the first photos of the Sun's south pole. These images were captured by the agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft, and ...