NASA's record-setting spacecraft was just 3.8 million miles from the sun's surface—the closest any human-made object has ever ...

By flying through the solar corona, Parker Solar Probe can take measurements that help scientists better understand how the region gets so hot, trace the origin of the solar wind (a constant flow ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came within 6.1 ...

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

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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.

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 ...

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

Editor's Note: This story was originally published Dec. 24 and updated Friday, Dec. 27 at 10:45 a.m. EST to confirm that the Parker Solar Probe had survived its latest rendezvous with the sun.