NASA scientists launched the Parker Solar Probe on what they call “a mission to touch the sun.” Since then, the spacecraft ...

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 ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has survived an up-close ... the space agency said in a news release. Two days after the probe zipped within 3.8 million miles of the sun, it managed to transmit a ...

The Parker Solar Probe broke its record by flying closer to the sun than ever before, reaching a distance of just 3.8 million ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed its record-breaking flyby, coming within just 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface on Christmas Eve.

Nasa did not have contact with the spacecraft during the historic feat as it endured temperatures of up to 982 degrees ...

Over the past six years, Parker Solar Probe has been preparing for this milestone. Since its 2018 launch, the spacecraft completed seven Venus flybys, using the planet's gravity to inch closer to ...

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

He attended the Parker Solar Probe’s launch in 2018, and died in 2022 at age 94. Counterintuitively, the laws of gravity make it hard to fly close to the sun. Objects orbiting the sun at a ...