CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Sixty years after NASA set the goal, and three years after its Parker Solar Probe launched, the spacecraft has become the first to "touch the sun." The Parker Solar Probe has ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured images of the sun 3.8 million miles away. Images collected by the probe include some of the sun’s outer atmosphere. The images are helping scientists figure out the ...

The solar atmosphere, or corona, is far hotter than the Sun's surface, a paradox that has puzzled scientists for decades. Furthermore, the constant outflow of plasma and magnetic fields from the Sun, ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe (PSP) recently captured some mind-blowing images of the Sun from only 3.8 million miles away from its surface. The photos were taken late last year, and it is the closest any ...

The Parker Solar Probe snapped these images of the sun about 3.8 million miles from the solar surface.That's the closest any probe has ever gotten to the sun.The new close-ups show the solar wind and ...

Samantha Magill (NAA vice chair, center) awards the Collier Trophy to Nicki Fox (Associate Administrator, NASA Science Mission Directorate, and former Parker Solar Probe Project Scientist), Andy ...