It goes without saying the sun is hot, but NASA says its actual temperatures might surprise you. Why the core, surface, and corona vary widely is a mystery.
A survivor of 1998's mass shooting in Springfield has not only recovered from his wounds, but has gone on to better our understanding of our closest star, the sun.
Building spacecraft instruments that could withstand the sun's heat was an engineering feat once thought impossible. Astrophysicists explain how NASA's Parker Solar Probe made history in April when it flew into the corona.
A spacecraft launched by NASA has done what was once thought impossible. On April 28, the Parker Solar Probe successfully entered the corona of the Sun an extreme environment that's roughly 2 million degrees Fahrenheit.