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

The spacecraft flew within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface to "touch the sun" on Christmas ...

The Parker Solar Probe flew within 3.8 million miles of the Sun's surface, the closest any spacecraft has ever gone.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is alive! Two days after a historic ... The probe should transmit the bulk of the images and science data in late January, when it will have swung away to a safe distance ...

"Parker Solar Probe is changing the field of heliophysics ... becoming the first spacecraft to "touch the sun" in 2021; capturing images of Venus' surface in visible wavelengths and studying ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is alive! Two days after a historic Christmas Eve ... The probe should transmit the bulk of the images and science data in late January, when it will have swung away to a ...

Dr. Eugene Parker is seen with a model of the Parker Solar Probe on May 31, 2017. - Scott Olson/Getty Images Parker was the first living person to have a spacecraft named after him. The ...

On December 24, Parker Solar Probe came within just 3.8 million miles ... the Sun's atmospheric boundaries and recorded detailed images of coronal streamers. Additionally, one of its onboard ...

The Parker Solar Probe will fly through the Sun's outer atmosphere ... Using data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and images from the Hubble Space Telescope, they identified a black hole ...

“Parker Solar Probe is changing the field of heliophysics ... The immense set of data and images gathered during the flyby won’t become available to mission control until Parker has ...