Probes are space crafts with cameras to send images back ... that means if you put together everything else in the Solar System, the Sun would be 99 times more massive! Astronomers think the ...

The sun was caught bursting out a huge quantity of helium-3, an isotope that's scarce in our solar system. Europe's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has chronicled the development of the magnetic escape ...

Parker Solar Probe is operating normally after passing just 6.1 million kilometres above the Sun’s surface, NASA says.

The probe itself has a solar-powered propulsion system that is used to make ... Needless to say, the sun is extremely hot and even this craft that was designed specifically to withstand high ...

However, the farther into space you go, the weaker the sun's light becomes ... 1977 to take a tour of the outer solar system and then journey beyond it. Each craft was equipped with three RTGs ...