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 ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe will get closer to the sun than ever before. Astrophysicist Nour Rawafi explains how this mission could help solve the sun's most perplexing mysteries.

Launched in 2018 to better understand our star, the Parker Solar Probe topped previous close approaches Christmas Eve morning.

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 ...

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 ...

This record-breaking feat was conducted by the Parker Solar Probe, which flew to within ... Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more!

NASA's pioneering Parker Solar Probe is poised to make its closest-ever approach of the Sun on Christmas Eve at 3.8 million ...

On Christmas Eve morning, NASA's Parker Solar Probe broke a new record with its closest approach ever to the sun. The NASA spacecraft is believed to have completed the history-making approach to ...

NASA's latest mission set new records in the universal record books. The agency reported that the Parker Solar Probe passed through the Sun's atmosphere to get within 3.8 million miles of the ...

One of two scheduled Falcon 9 rocket launches lifted off early Saturday with one going off in California but aborted in Florida. Science News // 1 week ago All systems 'go' as Parker Solar Probe ...

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 ...