A NASA spacecraft made history and is safe after making the closest-ever approach to the sun. On Tuesday, the Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the sizzling solar atmosphere and passed within a ...

NASA's pioneering Parker Solar Probe ... internal instruments remain near room temperature — around 29 C (85 F) — as it explores the sun's outer atmosphere, called the corona.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched in 2018 and has completed 21 close flybys around the sun. However, its mission on Christmas Eve will be unlike any other. At 6:53 a.m. ET, the spacecraft is set ...

NASA said on Friday that its Parker Solar Probe was "safe" and operating normally after successfully completing the closest-ever approach to the sun by any human-made object. The spacecraft passed ...

The fastest human-made object is hurtling toward the sun at this very moment, approaching speeds of 430,000 mph — and on December 24, it's scheduled to make history. NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched ...

24, the probe will come within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million km) of the sun and reach a top speed of around 435,000 mph (700,000 km/h), according to NASA. To do this, the craft will have to ...