Nasa have made history after their Parker Solar aircraft survived the closest-ever approach to the Sun. The aircraft has spent the last few days approximately 3.8 million miles from the sun ...

"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

Planes that fly faster than the speed of sound create thunderous supersonic booms. But with NASA's X-59 plane, that could change. The space agency plans for the aircraft's first flight in 2025 ...

NASA’s PUNCH mission will explore the connection between the sun’s corona and the solar wind using 3D imaging.

'Planet parade' isn't a technical term in astronomy but it is one widely used to describe the alignments of planets. The ...

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NASA scientists will wait for a signal from the aircraft which is expected to be ... Launched in 2018, the Parker Solar Probe’s mission was to head to the centre of our solar system.

pulling data from its Solar Orbiter probe, which it runs with NASA. In the video, we see blue circles popping up across the surface of the sun — and audible tones paired with each of these circles.

Credit: Don Pettit / NASA Comets are enormous balls of ice, dust, and rock that formed in the outer solar system, left over from the early days of planet formation about 4.6 billion years ago.

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...