The sun’s solar wind, made of charged particles, interacts with powerful eruptions, affecting cosmic rays and space weather.

"The data that will come down from the spacecraft will be fresh information about a place that we, as humanity, have never been." On New Year's Day, NASA's Parker Solar Probe added to the festive ...

The sun, a searing hot sphere of gas primarily composed of hydrogen and helium, boasts surface and outer atmospheric ...

"Their incredible technological breakthroughs enabled this amazing mission, and they have delivered critical new insights that are revolutionizing our understanding of heliophysics and space weather." ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has beamed home its first detailed update eight days after making a record-breaking approach to the sun, the agency announced. The spacecraft confirmed its systems and ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has successfully made the closest approach to the sun, the space agency confirmed ... Dayle Haddon, actress and model, dies at 76 from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning ...

"Parker Solar Probe is braving one of the most extreme environments in space and exceeding all expectations," said Nour Rawafi, the project scientist for Parker Solar Probe at APL. "This mission ...

the agency plans to complete a “solar landing” with the Parker spacecraft. Of course, it is worth noting that this solar “landing” won’t actually be a landing. The surface of our solar ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has made history by surviving the closest-ever approach to the Sun. On Christmas Eve, the spacecraft approached ... probe's 24 planned orbits. Model Dayle Haddon Dies ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made history Tuesday morning when it flew through the atmosphere of the Sun, becoming the closest human-made object to reach a star. The spacecraft was launched in Aug ...

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.

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 ...