The sun

The sun fired off an X1.2-class solar flare on Friday (Jan. 3), triggering radio blackouts throughout parts of the South Atlantic ocean, Africa and South America.

This New Year's Day, NASA's Parker Solar Probe added to the festive cheer by sending home its first detailed telemetry data soon after its record-breaking closest-ever approach to the sun.

The huge solar flare may be the last big explosion from the sun this year.

Sun pulses with several solar flares late Christmas Day with four M-class flares from sunspots within a few hours.

A NASA spacecraft has survived a historic close fly of the sun. The mission team received a beacon tone from the Parker Solar Probe, signaling it was still functioning after the record approach.

We look ahead to 2025 as the sun ramps up its activity, driven by the peak of the current solar cycle.

The spacecraft made the closest ever flyby if the sun on Christmas Eve, but it's been silent since Dec. 20.

On Christmas Eve (Dec. 24) NASA's parker Solar Probe made its closest approach to the sun yet, passing through the blisteringly hot outer atmosphere of our star.

If all goes to plan, the sun should give NASA's Parker Solar Probe a hard time.