The probe was developed as part of NASA's Living With a Star program to explore aspects of the Sun-Earth system.

The probe was launched in 2018 and first entered the solar atmosphere in 2021. Its latest achievement comes six months after ...

A NASA spacecraft has survived a historic close fly of the sun. The mission team received a beacon tone from the Parker Solar ...

The probe flew 3.8 million miles above the solar surface at 430,000 miles per hour, marking the closest distance in history.

NASA received a beacon tone from Parker Solar Probe on Dec. 27, 2024, after the spacecraft emerged from behind the sun three ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the Sun than ever before. It traveled at 430,000 mph, making it the fastest ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe will get closer to the sun than ever before. Astrophysicist Nour Rawafi explains how this mission could help solve the sun's most perplexing mysteries.

NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun has confirmed that it survived its record-breaking closest approach to the Sun’s surface on ...

The probe sent a signal to Earth indicating that it had survived the closest solar encounter ever attempted by a spacecraft.

The Parker Solar Probe zoomed by the sun on Tuesday during a record-breaking flyby, coming within 3.8 million miles of the solar surface during humanity's closest approach to a star.