NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has proven to be an essential tool in understanding space weather, a major potential hazard to life ...

Is it possible to look into the very heart of the Sun and not blink? NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has approached closer than any ...

We are witnessing where space weather threats to Earth begin, with our eyes, not just with models.” With these words, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate spokesperson Nicky Fox conveyed the wonder that ...

On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, the Johns Hopkins APL-built Parker Solar Probe captured stunning images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. Taken closer to the Sun than we’ve ever ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The Parker Solar Probe zoomed by the sun on Tuesday during a record-breaking flyby, coming within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface during humanity’s closest ...

NASA probe sets record as closest object to the sun 02:22. A NASA spacecraft made history and is safe after making the closest-ever approach to the sun. On Tuesday, the Parker Solar Probe hurtled ...

On Dec. 24 at 6:53 a.m. Eastern time, the Parker Solar Probe, a NASA spacecraft, will pass within 3.8 million miles of the sun’s surface, more than seven times closer than any previous mission has.

NASA's Parker Solar Space Probe got closer to the sun than any other human-made object. NPR talks to the scientist behind the project, Nour Rawafi.

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.