The planet, known as Barnard's Star b, is the second nearest to Earth outside the solar system and orbits its host star once every 233 days.
The manoeuvre exposed the spacecraft to intense heat and solar radiation in a complex solar wind environment, NASA said in a statement.
The innovation is an important step for putting solar heat-to-electricity generation in direct cost competition with fossil fuels, researchers said.
FOXSI (Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager) is a sounding rocket mission and it will take its third flight from New Mexico on September 7.
The car-sized spacecraft called Parker Solar Probe is slated to lift off no earlier than August 6, on a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy.
Parker Solar Probe is humanity’s first mission to the Sun. After launch, it will orbit directly through the solar atmosphere - the corona - closer to the surface than any human-made object has ever gone.
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The researchers have found a star located 120 light years away in the constellation of Cygnus which is identical to Sun in mass, radius and age.
The general prevailing theory is that our solar system was formed billions of years ago near a supernova. However, the latest study, published in the Astrophysical Journal, begins with a giant type of star called a Wolf-Rayet star.
The corona is hundreds to thousands of times hotter than the Sun's visible surface, the photosphere.
The “unprecedented” mission that will send humanity’s first spacecraft to a star is aimed at exploring Sun’s atmosphere and answer questions about solar physics that have puzzled scientists for over six decades.
Scientists have discovered a new world right round the corner from Earth. A new ‘super Earth’ planet was found with a mass around 5.4 times that of the Earth, orbiting a very bright star near
A team of Brazilian astronomers has discovered two new planets around a star similar to the sun known as HIP 68468. The two new planets, dubbed "super Neptune" and "super Earth", are the first to
According to a new study, soaking up in the sun is an effective way to reduce emotional distress. Mark Beecher, Professor at the Brigham Young University, US, said that the amount of time between sunrise
Planet Nine, the huge, distant planet that was predicted to exist in January, may be responsible for the unusual tilt of the Sun, a new study has found. This planet could be adding a wobble
In a major step in the quest to find out if life exists elsewhere in the universe, scientists have discovered a planet that appears to be similar to Earth circling the star closest to the sun.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is all set to launch its satellite, Aditya-L1, to study about the Sun, according to Mylswamy Annadurai, director, Isro satellite centre at Bengaluru. Speaking to the media on Saturday
A stunning video of plasma rain on the surface of the sun shared by NASA is sure to take your breath away. The video has been captured by premiere US space agency NASA’s Interface Region
An amazing video captured by the NASA/ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a spacecraft jointly launched by NASA and the European Space Agency in 1995, shows how a comet getting fully destroyed while diving towards
Sun has been the biggest star in our galaxy. It has not just been the source of energy to earth, but has also stored several mysteries with in. In fact, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory is
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