Eruptions of plasma piling atop one another, solar wind streaming out in exquisite detail -- the closest-ever images of our Sun are a gold mine for scientists. Parker was launched in 2018 and is named after the late physicist Eugene Parker,

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) detailed an inverse relationship between the brightness of the solar corona and the velocity of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal on July 3.

By flying closer to the Sun than ever, Parker Solar Probe reveals the chaotic birthplace of solar wind and space storms, offering clues that may boost Earth’s defenses.

Oddly, however, even though it is farther away from the sun's core, the uppermost part of the sun's atmosphere — known as the corona — is much hotter, regularly reaching about 1.8 million to 3 ...

The fact that the sun's corona is very hot--one million to two million kelvins in "quiet" regions, two million to five million in magnetically strong active regions and higher yet in solar flares ...

A groundbreaking new mission may soon allow scientists to study the sun’s corona with unprecedented clarity. The Moon-Enabled Sun Occultation Mission (MESOM), a proposal from a group of researchers from the Mullard Space Science Laboratory at University College London (UCL) and Aberystwyth University,