PUNCH isn't the only spacecraft studying the solar corona and the transition into the solar wind. NASA's Parker Solar Probe regularly flies closer to the sun than any other spacecraft has gone before; ...

Credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI team; Data processing: E. Kraaikamp (ROB) As tempting as it is to cite one, no single ... to study the Sun's effects on the rest of the solar system.

Scientists caught a massive and extremely powerful X-class solar flare being spat out from the sun on Friday (March 28 ... however analyses continues to be sure of no flanking influences.