Two of NASA’s longest-running space missions, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, have detected a searing-hot region of space where the ...

Christmas will be warm and bright for one NASA mission this year. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will swoop toward the fiery surface of the sun on Christmas Eve, traveling closer to the massive star than ...

Artist’s concept of Parker Solar Probe. On Tuesday, Dec. 24, NASA's Parker Solar Probe got to within just 3.86 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the sun's surface. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is making its second of three planned close passes through the sun’s outer atmosphere. The spacecraft will reach speeds of 430,000 mph, making it the fastest human-made ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has survived an up-close encounter with the sun, officially coming closer to the fiery star than any other spacecraft before it. The record-breaking solar approach took place ...

The Parker Solar Probe will soon be the closest any human-made object has ever gotten to the sun. The probe, engineered to study the corona -- the outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere, launched in ...

Forget the cautionary tale of Icarus. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is just days away from flying into the Sun — or through its outer layers, depending on how you look at the maneuver — in a daring bid to ...

A comet from another star system is putting on a show that looks uncannily like a heartbeat, with bright jets of gas and dust ...