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 ...

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

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.

The Parker Solar Probe passed within just 3.8 million miles of the sun’s surface — seven times closer to the burning ball of ...

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

The Parker Solar Probe will fly through the Sun's outer atmosphere ... Using data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and images from the Hubble Space Telescope, they identified a black hole ...

On December 24, Parker Solar ... journey into the solar atmosphere, the spacecraft revealed fresh insights into the Sun's atmospheric boundaries and recorded detailed images of coronal streamers.

"The sun is doing different things that it did when we first launched." Our sun is far from the flawless orb of light we see in the sky. Spacecraft observations have long shown that, up close, the ...

Editor's Note: This story was originally published Dec. 24 and updated Friday, Dec. 27 at 10:45 a.m. EST to confirm that the Parker Solar Probe had survived its latest rendezvous with the sun.