The mission’s close-up with the sun is the culmination of a dream that dates to the dawn of the space age, but progress was ...

The spacecraft flew within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface to "touch the sun ... Parker's data recorders are full." The probe should transmit the bulk of the images ...

The Parker Solar Probe, traveling at 430,000 mph, reaches 3.8 million miles from the Sun. Scientists now wait for a signal ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched ... The Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe Plus (WISPR) is a telescope that makes three-dimensional images of the sun's corona and inner heliosphere to actually ...

In a groundbreaking first, the Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed its closest encounter with the Sun. So where does this plucky probe go from here?

A NASA probe ventured closer to the sun than any spacecraft in history on Christmas Eve — and it whirled by at astounding ...

The Parker Solar Probe will soon be the closest any human-made object has ever gotten to the sun. The probe ... or WISPR-- captured images of Venus' scorching-hot surface through the thick ...

Our sun is far from the flawless orb of light we see in the sky. Spacecraft observations have long shown that, up close, the ...

Parker Solar Probe was 'safe' and operating normally after successfully completing the closest-ever approach to the Sun by ...

Only on Friday, Dec. 27, do NASA and JHUAPL mission controllers expect to hear their first signal from the Parker Solar Probe after its flyby. Don't expect much, like new photos or sun videos.

file photo, a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy lifts off from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral, Fla. The Delta IV Heavy rocket will take NASA's Parker Solar Probe to an interplanetary ...