The Sun

This Solar Cycle, the Sun’s Activity Is More Powerful and Surprising Than Predicted

The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launches NASA's Parker Solar Probe to touch the Sun, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018 from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Parker Solar Probe is humanity’s first-ever mission into a part of the Sun’s atmosphere called the corona. Here it will directly explore solar processes that are key to understanding and forecasting space weather events that can impact life on Earth. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

NASA Launches World’s First Mission to ‘Touch’ the Sun