Latest about Parker Solar Probe
French firm's solar sail launched on SpaceX mission last week.
The spacecraft will make its 14th close approach to our star, whipping through extreme conditions at tremendous speeds.
China's recently launched Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S) has returned its first image, showing an M-class flare erupting on the sun.
The European sun-observing mission Solar Orbiter observed a mysterious "switchback" in the solar wind that might explain what propels particles from the sun across the solar system.
This is the spacecraft's 13th close approach to the sun, but its first in a new era of solar activity.
The European Space Agency will ask its member states to fund a preparatory space-based solar power program at a major meeting later this year.
NASA's sun-grazing spacecraft will make its 12th close flyby of our star on Wednesday (June 1), marking the halfway point of the mission.
Eugene Parker was the namesake of NASA's Parker Solar Probe, which is swooping up close to the sun to get unprecedented detail about how our star works.
