Helios-2 had set this record in 1976 with a heliocentric speed of 153,454 mph (246,960 km/h). Parker Solar Probe was launched in August this year from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station ...

CARBONDALE, Ill. (KFVS) - The “Journey to the Sun” series at Southern Illinois University Carbondale will discuss NASA’s solar probes. The series begins at 3 p.m. on Friday, September 27 at ...

The US Commerce Department set preliminary duties on solar imports from Southeast Asia, after an initial finding the equipment is benefiting from illegal government aid. The determination marks an ...

July 30, 2024 — By diving into the sun's corona, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has ruled out S-shaped bends in the sun's magnetic field as a cause of the corona's searing ... July 19, 2024 — Space ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe executed a short maneuver on Aug. 26 that kept the spacecraft on course for the mission's seventh and final planned Venus flyby on Nov. 6. Operating on preprogrammed ...

CARBONDALE — A series of talks focused on the sun and the major role it plays in the lives of humans kicks off this month at Southern Illinois University Carbondale with a presentation on NASA ...

The Europa Clipper spacecraft flying by the Jovian moon, Europa, with dominant Jupiter in the distance. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech The brains of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft are stored in a ...

Related: Solar wind: What is it and how does it affect Earth? The fresh clue to the decades-old mystery emerged thanks to a chance lineup of two sun-studying spacecraft that provided scientists a ...

To answer these questions, we identified a unique spacecraft configuration where both spacecraft crossed the same portion of solar wind, but at different distances from the Sun. The Switchbacks’ ...

On April 23, NASA launched a solar sail protype to orbit around our planet — a piece of technology that could very well revolutionize the way we think about spacecraft propulsion. Then ...