Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Parker Solar Probe is observing the sun from a closer ...

NASA scientists are warning that the Sun’s internal engine is behaving in ways they have not seen in years, pointing to an abrupt shift in the star’s magnetic and energetic rhythms that drive space ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured images of the sun 3.8 million miles away. Images collected by the probe include some of the sun’s outer atmosphere. The images are helping scientists figure out the ...

NASA's mission to "touch" the sun has confirmed that it survived its record-breaking closest approach to the sun's surface on Dec. 24. Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles ...