NASA’s daring Parker Solar Probe plunged deeper into the sun’s atmosphere than any human-made object before. While performing ...

The probe sent a signal to Earth indicating that it had survived the closest solar encounter ever attempted by a spacecraft.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe made its closest approach to the sun on4. But did it survive? We're about to find out.

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) mission team in Laurel, Maryland, received the spacecraft’s signal just before midnight EST on December 26. Contact was lost during the closest ...

A NASA spacecraft has survived a historic close fly of the sun. The mission team received a beacon tone from the Parker Solar ...

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 within 6.1 ...

Hurtling around the sun at approximately 430,000 mph, the uncrewed vehicle is expected to come within 3.8 million miles of ...

The mission was greenlit and eventually named after Eugene Parker, the solar physicist who predicted the existence of the solar wind in the 1950s and lived to see the launch of his namesake probe ...

The spaceship is on a seven-year mission to deepen scientific understanding of the Sun and help forecast space-weather events ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe will get closer to the sun than ever before. Astrophysicist Nour Rawafi explains how this mission could help solve the sun's most perplexing mysteries.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is scheduled for its closest-ever solar flyby on December 24, 2024, passing within 3.8 million ...