Dr. Eugene Parker is seen with a model of the Parker Solar Probe on May 31, 2017. - Scott Olson/Getty Images Parker was the first living person to have a spacecraft named after him. The ...

NASA's Parker Solar Space Probe got closer to the sun than any other human-made object. NPR talks to the scientist behind the ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has successfully made the closest approach to the sun, the space agency confirmed Friday. Earlier this week, the spacecraft passed within a record-breaking 3.8 million ...

On Tuesday, the Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the sizzling solar atmosphere and passed within a record-breaking 3.8 million miles of the sun's surface. Just before midnight Thursday ...

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 ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is alive! Two days after a historic Christmas Eve sun flyby that flew closer to the star than any spacecraft in history — taking the car-sized spacecraft nearly a tenth ...

No human-made object has ever passed this close to a star, so Parker will truly be returning data from uncharted territory.” ...

Racing closer to the Sun than ever before, the Parker Solar Probe is unlocking the secrets of our solar system's fiery heart. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has successfully transmitted a beacon signal ...

Parker Solar Probe reaches record 3.8 million miles from the Sun Achieves 430,000 mph, fastest speed for a human-made object Key mission in understanding the Sun's solar wind and particles ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has sent signal to home after completing its closest-ever sun flyby. The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) mission team in Laurel, Maryland, received the ...