While making a death-defying dive through the sun’s atmosphere, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has directly recorded a powerful plasma explosion heading toward our star’s surface in unprecedented ...

In an unprecedented achievement, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has reached a historic milestone: the spacecraft has successfully completed its third and final approach to within just 3.86 million miles (6 ...

NEW YORK — NASA's Parker Solar Probe successfully made the closest approach to the sun, the space agency confirmed Friday. This week, the spacecraft passed within a record-breaking 3.8 million ...

In 2017, NASA renamed its Solar Probe Plus as the Parker Solar Probe in his honor, the first instance of a NASA space mission being named after a living individual.

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.

Visuals from the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter reveal chaotic solar magnetism in the solar polar region. Even better images are expected in the years ahead. By Jonathan O’Callaghan ...

In late-December 2024, NASA's Parker Solar Probe got closer to the sun than any spacecraft before it. Earlier that same month, the European Space Agency sent a pair of satellites toward the sun to ...

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe has directly observed a powerful magnetic explosion in the sun's corona that could help us predict ...

In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager probes to study the Solar System's edge, and the interstellar medium between the stars. One by one, they both hit the "wall of fire" at the boundaries of our ...