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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

This record-breaking feat was conducted by the Parker Solar Probe, which flew to within 3. ... the photosphere. Our standard model of stars suggests that the closer one gets to the stellar core ...

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 sent its Parker Solar Probe just 3.8 million miles from the surface of the Sun — and it survived. The probe transmitted a signal back to Earth on the night of December 26th, “indicating ...

Icarus has nothing on NASA. The space agency’s Parker Solar Probe survived the latest endeavor in its mission to “touch” the sun – flying just 3.8 million miles above the star’s surface ...