In 2018, after six decades of dreaming, a revolutionary spacecraft launched on a mission unlike any before: to dive into the ...

NASA did this by sending the Parker probe close to Venus many times. Each Venus flyby adjusted the probe’s orbit in a way that brought it closer to the sun with each solar flyby.

According to NASA, the Parker Solar Probe reached speeds of up to 430,000 mph, enduring temperatures as high as 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit (982 Celsius). Although the probe is scheduled to orbit the sun ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe conducts groundbreaking studies of the Sun, revealing insights into solar winds and space weather ...

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

The sun’s solar wind, made of charged particles, interacts with powerful eruptions, affecting cosmic rays and space weather.