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

A NASA spacecraft has made history by surviving its closest-ever approach to the Sun during the Parker Solar Probe mission, a project over six years in the making. The spacecraft was out of ...

The Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed a historic close encounter with the sun, passing through its blazing corona in mankind's nearest approach to the star, NASA announced Friday.

Launched in 2018 to get a close-up look at the sun, Parker has since flown straight through its crownlike outer atmosphere, ...

A Nasa spacecraft has made history by surviving the closest-ever approach to the Sun. Scientists received a signal from the ...

The mission control team is eagerly awaiting a signal from Parker on December 27, which will confirm the spacecraft's successful completion of the flyby and its continued operation.

give off energy. Parker, the first living person to have a spacecraft named after him, died at age 94 in March 2022, according to NASA. Within two months of launching, the Parker Solar Probe in ...

Editor’s Note (12/27/24): Mission controllers for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe have announced that ... “The requirement was to be close enough to take samples inside the solar corona ...

The Parker Solar Probe is expected to pass within an "unprecedented" 3.86 million miles of the solar surface on Dec. 24, ...