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This still image from a video shows possible plasma tornadoes on the limb of the sun

Ten Things We’ve Learned About the Sun From NASA’s SDO This Decade

02.11.2020
In February 2020, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory — SDO — is celebrating its 10th year in space. Over the past decade the spacecraft has kept a constant eye on the Sun, studying how the Sun creates solar activity and drives space weather — the dynamic conditions in space that impact the entire solar system, including Earth.
Photo of launch of the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter mission from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Feb. 9, 2020.

Solar Orbiter Launch Takes Solar Science to New Heights

02.10.2020
Solar Orbiter, a new collaborative mission between ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA to study the Sun, launched at 11:03 p.m. EST Sunday on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
first-ever view of a dust trail in the orbit of asteroid Phaethon

Revealing the Physics of the Sun with Parker Solar Probe

12.11.2019
Nearly a year and a half into its mission, Parker Solar Probe has returned gigabytes of data on the Sun and its atmosphere. Following the release of the very first science from the mission, five researchers presented additional new findings from Parker Solar Probe at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union on Dec. 11, 2019.
Image of Jupiter

NASA Highlights Solar Mission, Jupiter Cyclone at AGU Meeting

12.05.2019
NASA researchers will present new findings on a wide range of Earth and space science topics at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), Dec. 9-13 in San Francisco.
Photo of Nicholeen Viall

NASA Scientist to Discuss “From the Sun to Solar Wind” at Library of Congress Lecture

10.31.2019
The public is invited to a free lecture called ‘From the Sun to Solar Wind: The Perplexing Solar Corona and the Space Environment it Creates,' with Dr. Nicholeen Viall, NASA research astrophysicist.
Photo of team member Nelson Reginald examining the BITSE instrument in the lab where it was built

NASA’s BITSE Solar Scope Is Ready for Balloon Flight Over New Mexico

08.23.2019
NASA is getting ready to test a new way to see the Sun, high over the New Mexico desert: a coronagraph called BITSE. BITSE will fly up to the edge of the atmosphere from Fort Sumner, New Mexico, and seeks to explain how the Sun spits out the solar wind.
Image of solar wind streaming past the Parker Solar Probe

One Year, 2 Trips Around Sun for NASA's Parker Solar Probe

08.12.2019
Since Parker Solar Probe launched on Aug. 12, 2018, Earth has made one trip around the Sun, while the daring solar explorer is well into its third orbit.
Animation of the rotating sun, as imaged by the Solar Dynamics Observatory, in ultraviolet light

NASA Scientists Find Sun’s History Buried in Moon’s Crust

06.17.2019
Scientists are realizing that the Moon contains clues to the ancient mysteries of the Sun, which are crucial to understanding the development of life.
Photo of original sign being installed

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Celebrates 60 Years

04.29.2019
On May 1, 1959, the Beltsville Space Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, was renamed NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in honor of Robert H. Goddard, widely considered the father of modern rocketry. Thus began a 60-year boom in science and technological innovation.
animation of imagery showing coronal rain coming from magnetic loops

Unexpected Rain on Sun Links Two Solar Mysteries

04.05.2019
Researchers find rain on the Sun in an unexpected place. The findings could create a new link between two of the biggest mysteries in solar physics.
Photo from the 1970s of engineers inspecting Helios 2 spacecraft in a clean room

And the Blobs Just Keep on Coming

04.04.2019
Scientists re-inspected 45-year-old Helios data, finding long trains of massive blobs — like lava lamp's otherworldly bubbles, but 50 to 500 times the size of Earth — that ooze from the Sun every 90 minutes or so.
Photograph of Robert Goddard at blackboard

NASA Invites Media to 57th Annual Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium

03.15.2019
Media are invited to the 57th Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium on March 20-21.
Images from IRIS show the tadpole-shaped jets containing pseudo-shocks streaking out from the Sun.

Solar Tadpole-Like Jets Seen With NASA’S IRIS Add New Clue to Age-Old Mystery

02.19.2019
Scientists have discovered tadpole-shaped jets coming out of the Sun that may help explain why the corona (the wispy upper atmosphere of our star) is so inexplicably hot.
This image from Parker Solar Probe's WISPR (Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe) instrument shows a coronal streamer

Preparing for Discovery With NASA's Parker Solar Probe

12.12.2018
On Dec. 12, four researchers gathered at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union to share what they hope to learn from Parker Solar Probe.
animation of RHESSI in space

NASA Retires Prolific Solar Observatory After 16 Years

11.20.2018
More than 16 years after launching the mission on Feb. 5, 2002, NASA is retiring the solar observatory RHESSI, short for the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager.
Artist's conception of Parker Solar Probe with a close-up image of the sun in the background

Parker Solar Probe Reports Good Status After Close Solar Approach

11.07.2018
Parker Solar Probe is alive and well after skimming by the Sun at just 15 million miles from our star's surface. This is far closer than any spacecraft has ever gone. Mission controllers received the status beacon from the spacecraft at 4:46 p.m. EST on Nov. 7, 2018. The beacon indicates status "A" — the best of all four possible status signals.
This image from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory shows streaks of bright light. This represents material streaming out from the Sun, which is obscured in this picture by the central red disk so that its light doesn’t overwhelm the fainter material around it.

NASA Team to Fly First-Ever Coronagraph Capable of Determining the Formation of the Solar Wind

11.06.2018
An observational technique first proposed more than four decades ago to measure the physical parameters of the corona that determine the formation of the solar wind — the source of disturbances in Earth’s upper atmosphere — will be demonstrated for the first time next year.
Animated gif depicting artist concept of Parker Probe approaching Sun

Parker Solar Probe Breaks Record, Becomes Closest Spacecraft to Sun

10.29.2018
Parker Solar Probe now holds the record for closest approach to the Sun by a human-made object. The spacecraft passed the current record of 26.55 million miles from the Sun's surface on Oct. 29, 2018, at about 1:04 p.m. EDT, as calculated by the Parker Solar Probe team.
Image of Earth taken by Parker Probe

Parker Solar Probe Looks Back at Home

10.24.2018
On Sept. 25, 2018, Parker Solar Probe captured a view of Earth as it sped toward the first Venus gravity assist of the mission.
Animation of Parker probe during a Venus gravity assist

Parker Solar Probe Changed the Game Before it Even Launched

10.04.2018
On Oct. 3, Parker Solar Probe performed a Venus gravity assist that drew its orbit closer to the star by 4 million miles. But if you'd asked anyone before 2007, Venus would not have come up as the key to the mission puzzle.
Three NASA Missions Return 1st-Light Data

Three NASA Missions Return 1st-Light Data

09.21.2018
NASA’s continued quest to explore our solar system and beyond received a boost of new information this week with three key missions proving not only that they are up and running, but that their science potential is exceptional.
WISPR telescope's first light images

Illuminating First Light Data from Parker Solar Probe

09.19.2018
Just over a month into its mission, Parker Solar Probe has returned first-light data from its four instrument suites. These early observations show that each of the instruments is working well.
Photo of Parker Solar Probe launch

NASA, ULA Launch Parker Solar Probe on Historic Journey to Touch Sun

08.12.2018
Hours before the rise of the very star it will study, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched from Florida Sunday to begin its journey to the Sun, where it will undertake a landmark mission.
Animation of Parker Solar Probe approaching the sun

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is About to Lift Off

08.09.2018
Stay tuned — Parker is about to take flight. At 3:33 a.m. EDT on Aug. 11, while most of the U.S. is asleep, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida will be abuzz with excitement. At that moment, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, the agency’s historic mission to "touch" the Sun, will have its first opportunity to lift off.
Animation of solar wind being deflected by planetary magnetic field

Parker Solar Probe and the Birth of the Solar Wind

07.30.2018
This summer, humanity embarks on its first mission to touch the Sun: A spacecraft will be launched into the Sun’s outer atmosphere. Facing several-million-degree Fahrenheit temperatures, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will directly sample solar particles and magnetic fields to resolve some of the most important questions in solar science.
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