NASA’s Parker Solar Probe could solve the mysteries of the solar wind and test Einstein’s theory of relativity.

The Parker Solar Probe broke its record by flying closer to the sun than ever before, reaching a distance of just 3.8 million ...

NASA has confirmed that its Parker Solar Probe is safe and fully operational after its Christmas Eve close encounter with the ...

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 ...

NASA's record-setting spacecraft was just 3.8 million miles from the sun's surface—the closest any human-made object has ever ...

See the US achieve many firsts in space exploration this year from SpaceX's wild rocket catch to Intuitive Machines' historic ...

The spacecraft, located more than 24 billion kilometres away, was feared lost to the cosmic ocean after decades of travel. But, as Andrew Griffins writes, thanks to a daring feat of human ingenuity ...

On Christmas Eve, an autonomous spacecraft flew past the Sun, closer than any human-made object before it. Swooping through ...

Parker Solar Probe reaches record 3.8 million miles from the Sun Achieves 430,000 mph, fastest speed for a human-made object Key mission in understanding the Sun's solar wind and particles ...

From a total solar eclipse to a near-global Northern Lights display, it was a big year for the Sun and the impacts of space ...

Story by Carlos Nogueras, photos by Eli Hartman. Texas Department of Public Safety contractors pave the intersection of ...