The spacecraft that now skims through the Sun’s blistering atmosphere is not just surviving, it is turning that hostile frontier into a mapped and measured domain. By repeatedly plunging closer to our ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Sixty years after NASA set the goal, and three years after its Parker Solar Probe launched, the spacecraft has become the first to "touch the sun." The Parker Solar Probe has ...

“We are witnessing where space weather threats to Earth begin, with our eyes, not just with models.” With these words, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate spokesperson Nicky Fox conveyed the wonder ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is making its second of three planned close passes through the sun’s outer atmosphere. The spacecraft will reach speeds of 430,000 mph, making it the fastest human-made ...

GREENBELT, Md. — NASA's latest mission set new records in the universal record books. The agency reported that the Parker Solar Probe passed through the Sun's atmosphere to get within 3.8 million ...

Dec. 27 (UPI) --The Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed a historic close encounter with the sun, passing through its blazing corona in mankind's nearest approach to the star, NASA announced ...

The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has sent signal to home after completing its closest-ever sun flyby. The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) mission team in Laurel, Maryland, received the ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has completed is 2nd ultra-close flyby of the sun, and survived to transmit its data back to Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe successfully passed within 3.8 million miles of the sun's surface in mankind's closest encounter ever with the celestial body, scientists announced Friday. Image courtesy ...