The Parker Solar Probe is expected to pass within an "unprecedented" 3.86 million miles of the solar surface on Dec. 24, ...
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.
Hurtling around the sun at approximately 430,000 mph, the uncrewed vehicle is expected to come within 3.8 million miles of ...
The Delta IV Heavy rocket will take NASA's Parker Solar Probe to an interplanetary trajectory to the sun. (Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel via TNS via Getty Images, FILE) Tools aboard the probe will ...
Launched in 2018 to better understand our star, the Parker Solar Probe topped previous close approaches Christmas Eve morning.
A NASA probe is set to make history this Christmas Eve as it becomes the closest human-made object to the sun and sets the record for the fastest object ever created.
A Delta IV rocket, carrying the Parker Solar Probe, lifts off from launch complex 37 at the Kennedy Space Center on Aug. 12, 2018, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (John Raoux/The Associated Press ...