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 ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will perform 24 orbits around the Sun with the next close solar passes occurring on 22 March and 19 ...

NASA's record-breaking Parker Solar Probe will smash its own personal bests for proximity to the sun and fastest speed by a human-made object when it whizzes past our star on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24).

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 ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe went where no mission has gone before and came within 3.8 million miles (6 million kilometers) of ...

The "Parker Solar Probe" is flying through space towards the sun at almost 700,000 km/h. The NASA probe is closer to the star ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has survived an up-close encounter with the sun, coming closer to the fiery star than any other spacecraft before it.

In 2013, the space physics community endorsed the idea ... Eugene Parker came to the launch in 2018. Since then, the Parker Solar Probe has completed dozens of ever-tightening orbits about the ...

But over time, Parker’s successful orbits — 21 ... “It’s really a historic milestone for space exploration.” The probe’s solar data collected from this flyby is expected to reach ...

The Parker Solar Probe was launched Aug. 12 ... Parker is providing data that could help scientists to forecast space-weather events that reach Earth. Parker's final two close approaches will ...

The probe accelerated to 430,000 mph, faster than any spacecraft has ever flown, traveling to within 3.8 million miles of the star’s surface.