puzzle has prompted numerous studies, as researchers try to understand the forces at play. Recent data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, which ventured closer to the sun than any previous spacecraft, may provide insights into this mystery by capturing...

boost solar corona heating, reshaping our understanding of solar physics. New analysis of data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe suggests that minute charged dust particles orbiting close to the Sun may play a role in channeling energy through the solar...

Journal Supplement Series) Observational Evidence of S-web Source of the Slow Solar Wind(The Astrophysical Journal) Parker Solar Probe Observations of Solar Wind Energetic Proton Beams Produced by Magnetic Reconnection in the Near-Sun Heliospheric...

The structure exceeded the required threshold. Switchbacks are common in the solar wind, especially near the Sun. The Parker Solar Probe frequently detects them as brief magnetic reversals accompanied by bursts of fast plasma. Observing a switchback...

the faint corona that is usually drowned out by the Sun’s brilliance. While orbiting observatories such as NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, ESA’s Solar Orbiter and the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory monitor the Sun continuously, scientists argue that a...

circles the planet at about 27 600 km h⁻¹, a speed far below what a lunar return demands. While NASA’s uncrewed Parker Solar Probe surpassed 692 000 km h⁻¹ relative to the Sun in 2024, that record applies only to unmanned probes and does not affect the...