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An Indian spacecraft may be orbiting the moon, but it's also gathering valuable data about other key players in our solar system.

Seventeen years after the project came to be, the Kronos Quartet have recorded Terry Riley's 'Sun Rings.'

The Parker Solar Probe completed its third close solar flyby on Sunday (Sept. 1), coming within 15 million miles (24 million kilometers) of our star.

It's an extra-sunny Sunday for NASA's Parker Solar Probe, which is making its third close pass around the sun today (Sept. 1).

The deep-space duo have come full circle.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is preparing for another close swoop by the sun as it celebrates its first year in space.

The sun is the brightest object in our skies — but it wouldn't be if we could see incredibly energetic gamma-rays as well as visible light.

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) observed a comet diving directly into the sun yesterday (Aug. 15).

A team of four NASA spacecraft finally caught sight of a phenomenon scientists have been hunting for years: an interplanetary shock.

These stars, though extremely common, are tough to study.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has already completed two daring dives into the sun's atmosphere, and now scientists have realized that they'll be able to gather more data than expected from the mission.

The ever-brightening sun will evaporate our oceans, too.

Astronomers have stumbled upon a new class of pulsating stars.

Scientists built a miniature sun in the lab in order to gain more insight into solar physics.

Two studies paint a full picture of the sun's 11-year cycle.

A team of astronomers calculated the strength of the magnetic fields of four hot Jupiter exoplanets.

Today, a bread-loaf size spacecraft finally turned itself into a solar sail.