"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 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 ...

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

Close encounters: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will perform 24 orbits around the Sun with the next close solar passes occurring on 22 March and 19 June 2025 (Courtesy: NASA/APL) NASA has confirmed that ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

According to NASA’s ongoing operations with its solar probe, the agency plans to complete a “solar landing” with the Parker spacecraft. Of course, it is worth noting that this solar ...

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

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

The sun, a searing hot sphere of gas primarily composed of hydrogen and helium, boasts surface and outer atmospheric ...

In 2018 NASA sent the Parker Solar Probe to the sun to unlock some of its mysteries. Built to withstand 1,377 degrees Celsius ...