The NASA mission broke its own record as it seeks to teach us more about our Sun, as well as reveal other secrets of the ...

"This mission is ushering a new golden era of space exploration, bringing us closer than ever to unlocking the sun's deepest and most enduring mysteries." NASA's Parker Solar Probe survived its ...

The spacecraft flew within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface to "touch the sun" on Christmas ...

"The data that will come down from the spacecraft will be fresh information about a place that we, as humanity, have never ...

The sun, a searing hot sphere of gas primarily composed of hydrogen and helium, boasts surface and outer atmospheric ...

A NASA spacecraft made history and is safe after making the closest-ever approach to the sun. On Tuesday, the Parker Solar Probe hurtled ... data on its status on New Year's Day.

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 ...

Launched in 2018, Parker Solar Probe has already provided new data on solar activity and ... spacecraft to "touch the sun" in 2021; capturing images of Venus' surface in visible wavelengths ...

Only on Friday, Dec. 27, do NASA and JHUAPL mission controllers expect to hear their first signal from the Parker Solar Probe after its flyby. Don't expect much, like new photos or sun videos.

The Parker Solar Probe flew within 3.8 million miles of the Sun's surface, the closest any spacecraft has ever gone.

The Parker Solar Probe is attempting the closest ever pass of the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. An image from the Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR instrument of a coronal streamer of the sun ...

In 2018, NASA scientists launched the Parker Solar Probe on what ... The Parker probe’s payload contains multiple suites of instruments. One snaps images, others measure magnetic field strength ...