A NASA probe is about to launch on a mission to the sun in the name of protecting the Earth. On Saturday, the space agency's Parker Solar Probe is expected to launch to orbit, beginning its long ...

The Parker Solar Probe's mission is to study the sun in unprecedented detail. The revolutionary solar probe became the first spacecraft to "touch" the sun when it swooped inside the sun's outer ...

For Rawafi, this Parker Solar Probe mission is historic, a chance to learn more about the star that supports life on this planet. "Without the sun, there would be no life on Earth, there would be ...

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

The historic milestone is one NASA has been building toward ever since the Parker Solar Probe embarked in 2018 on a mission to study the sun's outer atmosphere. A signal from Parker received ...

"Right now, Parker Solar Probe has achieved what we designed the mission for," Nicola Fox, the associate administrator for NASA Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington ...

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

Visuals from the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter reveal chaotic solar magnetism in the solar polar region. Even better ...

New research led by a Southwest Research Institute scientist identified a new source of energetic particles near the Sun. These definitive observations were made by instruments aboard NASA’s Parker ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe detected a powerful magnetic explosion providing new data on magnetic reconnection, important to ...

Parker Solar Probe observed a rare sunward plasma jet Protons accelerated ~1,000x by magnetic reconnection Direct observation enhances solar wind and space weather models ...