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 within 6.1 ...

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

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NASA scientists launched the Parker Solar Probe on what they call “a mission to touch the sun.” Since then, the spacecraft ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has survived an up-close encounter with the sun, coming closer to the fiery star than any other spacecraft before it.

Nasa did not have contact with the spacecraft during the historic feat as it endured temperatures of up to 982 degrees ...

Hurtling around the sun at approximately 430,000 mph, the uncrewed vehicle is expected to come within 3.8 million miles of ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is solving long-standing mysteries about the sun. Here's what we've learned so far Since its launch in 2018, the Parker Solar Probe has helped decode longstanding ...

Launched into space in 2018, the Parker Solar Probe is gradually tightening its orbit around the Sun. The most significant ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has survived an up-close ... the space agency said in a news release. Two days after the probe zipped within 3.8 million miles of the sun, it managed to transmit a ...