NASA's Parker Solar Probe is expected to make a fiery dive close to the solar surface on the morning of Christmas Eve.

Forget the cautionary tale of Icarus. NASA's daring Parker Solar Probe is gearing up to fly into the Sun to glean the secrets ...

U.S. government agencies have awarded sensitive scientific, military and energy grants to dozens of researchers participating ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft zipped just 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) above the volcanic world Io in 2024. The extraterrestrial ...

Scientist have begun to reveal the particle-level processes that create the type of auroras that dance rapidly across the sky. The Kinetic-scale Energy and momentum Transport experiment -- KiNET-X -- ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe will touch the Sun diving through plumes of plasma, and entering the Sun's Corona, its outermost atmosphere.

A guiding star is key to the Nativity story, so there’s symbolism to be found in a daring Christmas Eve mission to give humans their closest-ever encounter with the sun.