NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, which has been soaring through space since it launched in 2018, has taken the closest-ever images ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched on Aug. 12, 2018, aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket. The Parker Solar Probe's mission is to study the sun in unprecedented detail. The ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has once again made history, completing its closest-ever approach to the sun on December 24, 2024. Hurtling through the solar corona at an astonishing 430,000 miles per ...

Within two months of launching, the Parker Solar Probe in October 2018 moved within 26.55 million miles of the sun's surface, breaking the previous mark set by the Helios-2 spaecraft in 1976.

In a historic milestone for space exploration, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has delivered the closest-ever images of the Sun — a ...

Tony Case, an astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., answered some questions to shine light on the Parker Solar Probe and the Smithsonian’s contribution to ...

The Parker Solar Probe will then begin its first of 24 orbits around the sun, with its first close approach, or perihelion, coming on Nov. 1. Get the Space.com Newsletter.

Before Parker Solar Probe’s mission is done, it will have made 21 close approaches to the sun over the course of seven years. The probe will orbit within 3.9 million miles of the sun’s surface ...

NASA has launched a mission to get closer than it's ever gotten before to the sun, its corona and solar wind. After a 24-hour delay, the mission, called Parker Solar Probe, launched early Sunday.

On Aug. 12, 2018—five years ago this week—NASA's Parker Solar Probe blasted off atop a powerful Delta IV rocket from what is now Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The predawn launch into the ...

Within two months of launching, the Parker Solar Probe in October 2018 moved within 26.55 million miles of the sun's surface, breaking the previous mark set by the Helios-2 spaecraft in 1976.