It’s one of the greatest mysteries in solar physics. Dubbed the coronal heating problem, the issue arises from the fact that the solar corona, or Sun’s atmosphere, is millions of degrees hotter than the layers directly below it.
This goes against modeling that suggests the corona should be far cooler than the layers below it.
Following a flyby of Venus in February that successfully increased its orbital inclination around the…
This week, a busy launch manifest saw SpaceX launch the Crew-10 and two Starlink missions…
SpaceX and NASA successfully launched the agency’s newest space telescope and solar research mission Tuesday…
2024 was another busy year for space science, with many new missions, successes, and discoveries…
Europe’s new heavy-lift rocket, Ariane 6, has successfully launched on its maiden flight. Liftoff occurred…
The final satellite of the GOES-R series of satellites, GOES-U, was launched on June 25…
On April 8, a total solar eclipse will sweep across the continental United States —…
India’s space program continued its busy 2023 with the launch of its first solar research…
On March 26, 2022, the joint European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft…
On February 8, 2022, SpaceX announced the loss of around 40 of the 49 Starlink…
China has launched a small experimental solar observatory as part of a multi-satellite launch aboard…
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-East/17 has suffered another…
The Sun is both creator and destroyer. The one that can foster life one second…
On 28 August 1859, a series of sunspots began to form on the surface of…
As NASA organizes a push to return a human presence to the Moon for the…
A mission years in the planning and building took its next great leap Sunday evening…
Solar Orbiter is ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) first medium class mission with strong partnership from…
Since its launch last year, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has completed two perihelion – closest…
NASA has released information regarding the U.S. space agency’s payloads that will launch on the…
