NASA's Parker Solar Probe is spending Christmas Eve on a history-making attempt to fly closer to the sun than we have ever been before — a stunning technological feat that scientists liken to ...

Parker Solar Probe traveled at 430-thousand miles per hour to the sun on Christmas Eve, making it the fastest-moving human object in history. Encountering the sun’s blazing hot temperatures ...

"This mission's trailblazing research is rewriting the textbooks on solar science by going to a place no human-made object ...

A Delta IV Heavy rocket with an added upper stage will boost NASA’s Parker Solar Probe away from Earth and, whipped by Venus’ gravity, it will soon become the fastest spacecraft ever flown.

The innovative team of engineers and scientists from NASA, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, and more than 40 other partner organizations across the country that created the revolutionary ...

Parker Solar Probe operates closer to the Sun than any other spacecraft has ever ventured, at faster speeds than have ever been achieved — all to help us understand how our star affects Earth ...