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.
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…
A Long March 2D has conducted the sixth Chinese launch of 2018, with the lofting…
For solar and space weather science, 2017 was a major boon to understanding how Coronal…
Like most years, 2017 saw numerous scientific advancements and discoveries throughout the solar system and…
Engineers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, have attached the Parker…
Throughout the inner solar system in 2016, NASA, ESA, JAXA, Roscosmos, and ISRO built upon…
2013 was another year dominated by the increase in robotic exploration of humanity’s most sought-after…
The 2013 year was another busy and productive year for NASA and the world’s space…
Two European spacecraft are currently enjoying their final moments high above the planet, as they…
