UPDATE 2: The Parker Solar Probe launched as planned at 3:31 a.m. ET on Sunday morning, and NASA celebrated the start of the probe's voyage with video and photos of the successful launch.

A NASA spacecraft ... Parker had flown straight through the sun's corona, the outer atmosphere visible during a total solar eclipse. The sun's warming rays make life possible on Earth.

NASA began its mission to “touch the Sun” back in mid-August, sending the Parker Solar Probe towards ... image released by NASA, the probe looks back towards Earth, which appears at a bright ...

The first time NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has observed a big magnetic burst in the sun’s corona, this event could ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has survived an up-close encounter with the sun, officially coming closer to the fiery star than any other spacecraft before it. The record-breaking solar approach took ...

The Delta IV Heavy rocket will take NASA's Parker Solar Probe to an interplanetary trajectory to the sun. Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel via TNS via Getty Images ... of life on Earth is dependent ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole in March, which were ...

NASA's Parker Solar ... how the spacecraft fared in the early hours of Dec. 27 after a beacon signal confirms both the flyby's success and the overall state of the spacecraft. Images gathered ...

The spacecraft's tilted orbit will allow scientists to investigate the mechanisms behind space weather that impact crucial ...

Flying into the outermost part of the Sun's atmosphere, the corona, for the first time, Parker Solar Probe is collecting ...

Research like this is integral because so much of life on Earth is dependent ... telescopes. The images are simulated, based on data from earlier in the STEREO mission. (Stereo Science Center/NASA) ...