NASA's Parker Solar Probe has beamed home its first detailed update eight days after making a record-breaking approach to the sun, the agency announced. The spacecraft confirmed its systems and ...

The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has given scientists an unprecedented glimpse of the Sun’s fiery behavior during powerful eruptions ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Lab NASA's Parker Solar Probe is no stranger to ...

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 ...

For the first time in the history of solar observation, NASA has made the Sun’s invisible magnetic behavior visible. Using ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has completed is 2nd ultra-close flyby of the sun, and survived to transmit its data back to Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA successfully launched humanity’s first probe to the sun on Sunday, kicking off a daring seven-year mission to better understand Earth’s closest star. The Parker Solar Probe ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a blazing 430,000 miles per hour — faster than any human-made object has ever moved. The NASA Solar Probe flew 3.8 million miles above ...

NASA has big plans for a new mission to the sun: A complex spacecraft, known as the Parker Solar Probe, will be launched in July 2018. One of the main goals of the Parker Solar Probe is to explore the ...

NASA lost communication with its MAVEN probe nearly a month ago, and efforts to re-establish a connection have been futile.