UPDATE 2: The Parker Solar Probe launched as planned at 3:31 a.m. ET on Sunday morning, and NASA celebrated the start of the probe's voyage with video and photos of the successful launch.

Launched in 2018, the Parker Solar Probe is humanity’s first mission to “touch” the sun, flying through its 2.5-million-degree corona hotter than the sun’s surface itself.

In a groundbreaking discovery, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has provided scientists with an unprecedented look at a magnetic explosion within the Sun’s atmosphere. These observations, recorded in ...

In late-December 2024, NASA's Parker Solar Probe got closer to the sun than any spacecraft before ... That means all the spacecraft we launch into orbit tend to do so as well. But by tilting the Solar ...

In late-December 2024, NASA's Parker Solar Probe got closer to the sun than any spacecraft before it. Earlier that same month, the European Space Agency sent a pair of satellites toward the sun to ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has directly observed a powerful magnetic explosion in the sun's corona that could help us predict geomagnetic storms on Earth.

NEW YORK — NASA's Parker Solar Probe successfully made the closest approach to the sun, the space agency confirmed Friday. This week, the spacecraft passed within a record-breaking 3.8 million ...

The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter captured the sun from an angle of 17 degrees below the solar equator, enough to directly see the sun’s south pole.

In 2017, NASA renamed its Solar Probe Plus as the Parker Solar Probe in his honor, the first instance of a NASA space mission being named after a living individual.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has directly observed a powerful magnetic explosion in the sun's corona that could help us predict ...

The launch is scheduled for 6:54 a.m. EDT at the opening of a 30-minute window. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance Photo credit: United Launch Alliance Photo credit: United Launch Alliance ...