CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Sixty years after NASA set the goal, and three years after its Parker Solar Probe launched, the spacecraft has become the first to "touch the sun." The Parker Solar Probe has ...

The spacecraft that now skims through the Sun’s blistering atmosphere is not just surviving, it is turning that hostile frontier into a mapped and measured domain. By repeatedly plunging closer to our ...

Using data collected by NASA's Parker Solar Probe during its closest approach to the sun, a University of Arizona-led research team has measured the ...

The Sun’s outflow is supposed to be a one-way trip, with charged particles streaming steadily into interplanetary space. Now NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has caught that flow doing something far stranger ...

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 miles ...

When taking the measurements for this study, the Parker Solar Probe, pictured here in an artist's impression, traveled at ...

Our Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is millions of degrees hotter than it should be, and no one knows why.

"This work shows without a doubt that Parker Solar Probe is diving deep with every orbit into the region where the solar wind is born." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

ESA's Proba-3 mission, made up of twin spacecraft capable of aligning to create artificial eclipses, has captured "rare" ...

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