The Parker Solar Probe is attempting the closest ever pass of the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. An image from the Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR instrument of a coronal streamer of the sun ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe conducts groundbreaking studies of the Sun, revealing insights into solar winds and space weather ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will perform 24 orbits around the Sun with the next close solar passes occurring on 22 March and 19 ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe achieved its closest Sun approach, enduring extreme heat and gathering vital data on the corona and ...

The fastest human-made object is hurtling toward the sun at this very moment, approaching speeds of 430,000 mph — and on December 24, it's scheduled to make history. NASA's Parker Solar Probe ...

The probe - launched in 2018 to help scientists better understand the outer layer of the sun - will race past the sun at ...

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-breaking 3.8 million ...

Thomas Zurbuchen was the head of science at NASA from 2016 to 2022. There is a joke at NASA that says missions are deliberately planned so key milestones fall on or around big holidays. I’ve ...

A 4.5-inch-thick carbon-composite shield is keeping Parker Solar Probe’s instruments at room ... [+] temperature as the spacecraft approaches the sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe remains out of ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is gearing up for an extraordinary milestone. The spacecraft was supposed to make its closest-ever approach to the Sun on December 24. At precisely 6:53 a.m. EST, the ...

This Christmas Eve, a vehicle will travel at incomprehensible speed around a celestial object to bring wonder to the people of Earth — and it’s not Santa’s sleigh. On Dec. 24 at 6:40 a.m ...