The mission’s close-up with the sun is the culmination of a dream that dates to the dawn of the space age, but progress was ...

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

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

Thomas Zurbuchen was the head of science at NASA from 2016 to 2022.

NEW YORK (AP) — NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has successfully made the closest approach to the sun, the space agency confirmed Friday. Earlier this week, the spacecraft passed within a record ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the sun than any human-made object ever — a stunning technological feat that ...

The Parker Solar Probe's mission is to study the sun in unprecedented ... more than seven times closer than Mercury gets to our star, according to the APL. When the probe makes its closest ...

The Parker Solar Probe will swoop just 6.1 million kilometers above the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. Scientists are ...

NASA has confirmed that its Parker Solar Probe is safe and fully operational after its Christmas Eve close encounter with the ...

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 ...

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

NASA is getting up close and personal with the Sun. On Christmas Eve the Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the Sun than any ...