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

The mission’s close-up with the sun is the culmination of a dream that dates to the dawn of the space age, but progress was ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe made history on Tuesday with a record-breaking flight around the sun, the space agency has ...

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 ...

Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the sizzling solar atmosphere and passed within a record-breaking 3.8 million miles ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched on ... solar wind and provide 3D images of shocks and other structures as they travel past the spacecraft. When flying past Venus in 2020, the WISPR instrument ...

The heat shield also allowed researchers to learn more about Venus during the numerous flybys. In July 2020, its camera -- the Wide-Field Imager for Parker Solar Probe, or WISPR-- captured images ...

The daring NASA spacecraft made its closest-ever approach to the sun at 6:53 a.m. EST (1153 GMT) on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24).

NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the Sun than ever before. It traveled at 430,000 mph, making it the fastest ...