NASA's Parker Solar Probe added to the festive cheer by sending home its first detailed telemetry data soon after its ...

NASA's record-setting spacecraft was just 3.8 million miles from the sun's surface—the closest any human-made object has ever ...

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

The Parker Solar Probe's mission is to study the sun in unprecedented detail. The revolutionary solar probe became the first spacecraft to "touch" the sun when it swooped inside the sun's outer ...

The historic milestone is one NASA has been building toward ever since the Parker Solar Probe embarked in 2018 on a mission to study the sun's outer atmosphere. A signal from Parker received ...

It's a historic milestone that NASA has been building toward ever since the Parker Solar Probe embarked in 2018 on a mission to study the sun's outer atmosphere. While the spacecraft is due to ...

These extreme numbers, and the thermal and technological challenges to keeping the spacecraft alive, explain why a Parker Solar Probe-type mission was more dream than reality for half a century.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe raced past the sun at a distance of six kilometers. It seems to have returned safely during the ...

Parker Solar Probe is operating normally after passing just 6.1 million kilometres above the Sun’s surface, NASA says.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has survived an up-close encounter with the sun, coming closer to the fiery star than any other ...