The probe launched atop at United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket on Sunday from the Cape’s SLC-37 at 03:31 Eastern. The Parker Solar Probe began as an idea in the Outer Planet/Solar Probe ...

The Parker Solar Probe is expected to pass within an "unprecedented" 3.86 million miles of the solar surface on Dec. 24, according to NASA. "It's about to be on its closest approach to the sun," Rayl ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is in its final ... 6 August 2018 atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket. The mission, which will be humanity’s first to “touch the surface of ...

AFP/Getty Images The Delta-IV Heavy rocket with the Parker Solar Probe onboard The Delta will hurl the probe into the inner Solar System, enabling the Nasa mission to zip past Venus in six weeks ...

The Parker Solar Probe rocket lifted ... he had been biting his nails in anticipation. The Delta-IV Heavy rocket - which was carrying the probe - launched at 03:31 local time (07:31 GMT).

Firing up its three core boosters and RS-68A engines, the last 235-foot tall Delta IV ... rocket launched two NASA missions: the Orion crew capsule orbital test flight in 2014 and the Parker Solar ...

(WBOY) — Six years of waiting will come to an end next week as NASA’s Parker Solar Probe makes its final approach toward the sun, thanks in part to the Katherine Johnson IV&V facility in Fairmont.

Editor's note: FLORIDA TODAY's Space Team was at Cape Canaveral covering the final launch for ULA's Delta IV Heavy rocket when ULA called a scrub at 2:47 p.m. EDT Thursday, March 28. Launch is TBD ...