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

NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched on Aug. 12, 2018, aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket. The Parker Solar Probe's mission is to study the sun in unprecedented detail.

NASA has confirmed that its Parker Solar Probe is safe and fully operational after its Christmas Eve close encounter with the ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came within 6.1 ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has survived an up-close encounter with the sun, officially coming closer to the fiery star than any other spacecraft before it. The record-breaking solar approach took ...

Our sun is far from the flawless orb of light we see in the sky. Spacecraft observations have long shown that, up close, the ...

who is a co-investigator for the WISPR instrument onboard Parker Solar Probe, told reporters at the AGU meeting. "That is really cool because it is making different types of solar winds and solar ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is preparing for its long-anticipated record-setting approach to the surface of the sun. Hurtling around the sun at approximately 430,000 mph, the uncrewed vehicle is ...

Icarus has nothing on NASA. The space agency’s Parker Solar Probe survived the latest endeavor in its mission to “touch” the sun – flying just 3.8 million miles above the star’s surface ...