CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Sixty years after NASA set the goal, and three years after its Parker Solar Probe launched, the spacecraft has become the first to "touch the sun." The Parker Solar Probe has ...

Close-up measurements from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe are giving scientists an unprecedented look at how the solar wind gains ...

The heavily armored Parker Solar Probe has traveled to within just 3.86 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the sun’s surface — what NASA calls “hyper close.” It’s the third time it has ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has once again made history by achieving a speed that is almost unimaginable. During its recent journey through the Sun’s outer atmosphere, known as the corona, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made the closest flyby of the sun ever made by a spacecraft in Dec. 25. See the views it captured of the ...

The Parker Solar Probe science and engineering team, a collaboration of scientists from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), NASA, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), and more than 40 ...

On Christmas Eve 2024, a human-made spacecraft came closer to the Sun than any other piece of technology our species has ever made. The Parker Solar Probe, as it's called, came within 3.8 million ...

The Parker Solar Probe was 1,500 pounds of ambition when it launched from Florida in 2018, on a seven-year mission to “touch the Sun.” The goal was to have the probe orbit 24 times, using Venus for a ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe made history with the closest-ever approach to the sun last December, and we're finally getting a look at some of the images it captured. The space agency released a ...

By taking advantage of a maneuver that would see a spacecraft fire rocket engines while in the solar corona, that spacecraft’s velocity could receive a huge boost — enough to allow it to catch up with ...

Samantha Magill (NAA vice chair, center) awards the Collier Trophy to Nicki Fox (Associate Administrator, NASA Science Mission Directorate, and former Parker Solar Probe Project Scientist), Andy ...