The mission’s close-up with the sun is the culmination of a dream that dates to the dawn of the space age, but progress was ...

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's Parker Solar Probe launched ... The Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe Plus (WISPR) is a telescope that makes three-dimensional images of the sun's corona and inner heliosphere to actually ...

The Parker Solar Probe, traveling at 430,000 mph, reaches 3.8 million miles from the Sun. Scientists now wait for a signal ...

The Parker Solar Probe passed within just 3.8 million miles of the sun’s surface — seven times closer to the burning ball of ...

Editor's Note: This story was originally published Dec. 24 and updated Friday, Dec. 27 at 10:45 a.m. EST to confirm that the Parker Solar Probe had survived its latest rendezvous with the sun.

Our sun is far from the flawless orb of light we see in the sky. Spacecraft observations have long shown that, up close, the ...

The spaceship is on a seven-year mission to deepen scientific understanding of the Sun and help ... on Earth NASA's Parker Solar Probe Sources: NASA, Parker Solar Probe, AFP Photo/NASA/Johns ...

Parker Solar Probe was 'safe' and operating normally after successfully completing the closest-ever approach to the Sun by ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the Sun than ever before. It traveled at 430,000 mph, making it the fastest ...