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NASA's Parker Solar Probe swings through Venus 'tail' in flyby today
By Meghan Bartels published
A daring sun-grazing NASA spacecraft turns its focus to Venus today (July 10) with a critical flyby that will pass through the planet's weird "tail."

NASA's Parker Solar Probe flies by the sun in 5th close encounter
By Meghan Bartels published
NASA's daring Parker Solar Probe made its fifth daring flyby of the sun this weekend.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe starts sun observation marathon
By Meghan Bartels published
NASA's sun-grazing spacecraft is gathering the most data ever on its upcoming skim past our star, with instruments turned on for nearly two months.

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope: Getting a close-up look at our sun
By Adam Mann published
Now we can stare directly at the sun.

Our sun will never look the same again thanks to two solar probes and one giant telescope
By Meghan Bartels published
It's always sunny for heliophysicists, but especially so now.

Sun science rises with new trove of Parker Solar Probe studies
By Meghan Bartels published
Solar scientists were excited that NASA would be launching a probe to fly closer to the sun than ever before, but they may not have bargained on already producing dozens of papers based on the data.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe spotted 'stealth' outburst on the sun
By Meghan Bartels published
Coronal mass ejections aren't known for being subtle: Each such event can fling huge amounts of the soup of charged particles called plasma off the sun and out into the solar system.
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