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

A NASA probe has 'touched the Sun' in a historic moment, capturing the sound of solar flares as they fly out through space.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came ...

NASA has confirmed that its Parker Solar Probe is safe and fully operational after its Christmas Eve close encounter with the Sun. On December 24, 2024, the robotic probe came within a record 3.8 ...

While Earthlings were wrapping gifts and preparing holiday buffets this past Christmas Eve, a rocket named for a south ...

Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles (around 6.1 million kilometers) above the surface of the sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a blazing ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has flown into the Sun's corona. Structures known as coronal streamers and the Milky Way can be ...

On Christmas Eve, 2024, NASA’s daring Parker Solar Probe plunged deeper into the sun's atmosphere than any human-made object before. While performing this nail-biting closest approach to the sun ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has beamed home its first detailed update eight days after making a record-breaking approach to the sun, the agency announced. The spacecraft confirmed its systems and ...

This is why NASA, in a press release, said the Parker Solar Probe had touched the sun. So far, the probe has completed more than 20 full orbits of the sun, coming marginally closer every time ...

As the New Year got underway, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe provided more telemetry on its status following its record close flyby of the Sun on Dec. 24, affirming that the spacecraft executed all ...