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.

The Delta IV Heavy rocket is remembered for its transportation of not only the NASA Parker Solar Probe in 2018, but the first ...

The Parker Solar Probe rocket lifted ... he had been biting his nails in anticipation. The Delta-IV Heavy rocket - which was carrying the probe - launched at 03:31 local time (07:31 GMT).

ULA is preparing the final Delta IV Heavy rocket for its swan song, sending a national security payload into orbit before concluding a 60-year history of the Delta rocket family.

Part 1 of the TED Radio Hour episode "Making Sense of the Sun" UPDATE: NASA reported that the Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed its closest flyby of the sun. On Dec. 26, the mission ...

The Parker Solar Probe, partly designed by students and researchers in Colorado, survived its closest encounter with our sun late last week, passing a mere 3.8 million miles from its surface.

A NASA spacecraft has made history by surviving its closest-ever approach to the Sun during the Parker Solar Probe mission, a project over six years in the making. The spacecraft was out of ...