December 26 of this past year, humanity’s most daring space mission yet achieved the unthinkable. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe ...
Early on Christmas Eve in 2024, a NASA craft swooped at blazing speed through the sun's atmosphere. The Parker Solar Probe, equipped with a robust heat shield, made the closest-ever approach to ...
Scientists use substitutes (proxies) like records of sun spots, which have been kept since Galileo’s time, or carbon in tree rings to estimate the amount of energy the Sun has sent to Earth. Though ...