NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is rewriting everything we thought we knew about the Sun. Launched to explore our star more closely ...

The probe captured images and other data from within the sun's corona during a record-breaking approach last year.

Now, NASA has released remarkable video captured during the historic flyby, offering the closest views of the sun ever ...

New research utilizing data from NASA's Parker Solar Probe has provided the first direct evidence of a phenomenon known as the "helicity barrier" in the solar wind. This discovery, published in ...

The Parker Solar Probe will be traveling at about 430,000 miles per hour at the time of its closest-ever pass. It’ll ping the team to confirm its health on December 27, when it’ll be far ...

Set your Parker Solar Probe sun flyby clocks for Dec. 24 at 6:53 a.m. EST (1153 GMT), Space Fans. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

When Parker Solar Probe got very close to the sun, Tuesday of this week, we were - our estimate, it will - the side of the heat shield facing the sun will experience temperatures in order of ...

What powers the solar wind was debated for decades, as there was controversy over whether it was driven by magnetic reconnection or Alfvén waves. But until Parker’s advanced instruments could ...

The Parker Solar Probe is about to embark on its longest scientific observation campaign to date, getting as close as 11.6 million miles from the Sun.

In 2018, NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe on an unprecedented mission to study the sun up close. The mission was defined with three key scientific goals: To trace the flow of energy that heats ...

As a 91-year-old emeritus professor in 2018, he will be at Cape Canaveral next month to watch NASA launch its Parker Solar Probe, the agency’s first mission named for a living person.