On Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe became the nearest spacecraft to the sun, flying within a few million miles of the ...

NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft lander is designed for flight on Saturn's moon Titan. See a "half-scale Dragonfly lander model" in tests at NASA Langley. Credit: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory M ...

Operations teams have confirmed NASA's mission to "touch" the sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar ...

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

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

Johns Hopkins sells a D.C. building for half of its assessed value, Constellation sells the final portion of a Massachusetts ...

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

Racing closer to the Sun than ever before, the Parker Solar Probe is unlocking the secrets of our solar system's fiery heart. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has successfully transmitted a beacon signal ...

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

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

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

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