NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched on Aug. 12, 2018, aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket. The Parker Solar Probe's mission is to study the sun in unprecedented detail.

The Delta IV Heavy rocket will take NASA's Parker Solar Probe to an interplanetary trajectory to the sun. (Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel via TNS via Getty Images, FILE) Tools aboard the probe will ...

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

Launched in 2018 to better understand our star, the Parker Solar Probe topped previous close approaches Christmas Eve morning.

The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 to get a close-up look at the sun. Since then, it has flown straight through the sun’s corona: the outer atmosphere visible during a total solar eclipse.

The spacecraft flew within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface to "touch the sun" on Christmas Eve. NASA's Parker Solar Probe is ... updates on rocket launches ...

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.

A NASA spacecraft has made history by surviving its closest-ever approach to the Sun during the Parker Solar Probe mission, a project over six years in the making. The spacecraft was out of ...

NASA's pioneering Parker Solar Probe is poised to make its closest-ever approach of the Sun on Christmas Eve at 3.8 million ...

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 miles of the ...

The Parker Solar Probe will soon be the closest any human-made object has ever gotten to the sun. The probe, engineered to study the corona -- the outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere ...