At 3.8 million miles from the Sun's surface, Parker Solar Probe will be the closest a human-made object's ever been to our host star. Reading time 3 minutes The Sun is getting a surprise visitor for ...

The Parker Solar Probe has now traced the sun’s outer frontier in unprecedented detail, turning a once-theoretical boundary into a mapped region of real, measured structure. By skimming through the ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe successfully passed within 3.8 million miles of the sun's surface in mankind's closest encounter ever with the celestial body, scientists announced Friday. Image courtesy ...

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 place ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has given scientists an unprecedented glimpse of the Sun’s fiery behavior during powerful eruptions ...

The Parker Solar Probe, partly designed by students and researchers in Colorado, survived its closest encounter with our sun late last week, passing a mere 3.8 million miles from its surface. The ...

Here’s what I know about the sun - it’s big, it’s hot and if I stay out in it too long, my skin starts to peel. But there’s so much we don’t know about it. And we’re going to learn so much more thanks ...

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 ...

NASA's record-breaking Parker Solar Probe will smash its own personal bests for proximity to the sun and fastest speed by a human-made object when it whizzes past our star on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24).

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has generated the first continuous, two-dimensional maps of the Sun's outer atmosphere, revealing ...

In Parker’s first close approach to the Sun, it observed that the solar wind near the Sun was indeed abundant with Alfvén waves. Our Sun drives a constant outward flow of plasma, or ionized gas, ...

Almost no one ever writes about the Parker Solar Probe anymore. Sure, the spacecraft got some attention when it launched. It is, after all, the fastest-moving object that humans have ever built. At ...