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 ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is preparing for its long-anticipated record-setting approach to the surface of the sun. Hurtling around the sun at approximately 430,000 mph, the uncrewed vehicle is ...

On Nov. 6, NASA's Parker Solar Probe passed within 234 miles ... switchbacks play a critical role in heating the corona. A switchback starts in the turbulent photosphere, where plumes of plasma ...

On Tuesday, the Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the sizzling solar atmosphere and passed within a record-breaking 3.8 million miles of the sun's surface. Just before midnight Thursday ...

The Parker Solar Probe signaled to operators that it was still operating normally after traveling within 3.8 million miles of the Sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. The Parker Solar Probe signaled ...

Parker is attempting to be the closest a human-made object has been to the sun. NASA is gearing up for its Parker Solar Probe to do a final flyby of Venus on Wednesday on its way to making history ...

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 ...

According to NASA’s ongoing operations with its solar probe, the agency plans to complete a “solar landing” with the Parker spacecraft. Of course, it is worth noting that this solar ...

The Parker Solar Probe is attempting the closest ever pass of the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. An image from the Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR instrument of a coronal streamer of the sun ...

The probe is expected to pass within 3.86 million miles of the sun on Dec. 24. The Parker Solar Probe will soon be the closest any human-made object has ever gotten to the sun. The probe ...