The Parker Solar Probe has flown closer to the sun than any other spacecraft and will continue to shrink its orbit around our star over its approximately seven-year lifespan. The solar probe's ...

NASA's record-setting spacecraft was just 3.8 million miles from the sun's surface—the closest any human-made object has ever ...

The Parker Solar Probe is expected to pass within an "unprecedented" 3.86 million miles of the solar surface on Dec. 24, according to NASA. "It's about to be on its closest approach to the sun," Rayl ...

The probe is named after the late Eugene N. Parker, a pioneer in solar physics who predicted the existence of the solar wind. Designed to orbit the sun in highly elliptical loops, Parker uses ...

On August 12, 2018, NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe, a spacecraft designed to study the Sun and its environment. Since ...

A NASA spacecraft made history and is safe after making the closest-ever approach to the sun. On Tuesday, the Parker Solar Probe hurtled ... pull it into a tighter orbit with the sun.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is preparing for its long-anticipated record-setting approach to the surface of the sun. Hurtling around ... its historic approach. That orbit is expected to happen ...

27 (UPI) --The Parker Solar Probe has successfully ... It won't be the last time the Parker probe passes close to the sun. Its oval-shaped orbit will bring it back to within 3.8 million miles ...

NASA did this by sending the Parker probe close to Venus many times. Each Venus flyby adjusted the probe’s orbit in a way that brought it closer to the sun with each solar flyby.