The data collected by Parker Solar Probe serves to enhance our understanding of the science behind various solar events.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made the closest flyby of the sun ever made by a spacecraft in Dec. 25. See the views it captured ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Parker Solar Probe is about to make its closest approach to the sun. The spacecraft will fly within 3.8 million miles of ...

Parker Solar Probe will break its silence on Friday—that is, if it survived its closest approach to the Sun. Reading time 2 minutes This week, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe attempted to get closer to the ...

Thanks to some precise maneuvering on Aug. 3, NASA says Parker is on-track to make its sixth and closest flyby of Venus on Aug. 21. The Parker Solar Probe conducted its 16th perihelion pass on ...

At 3.8 million miles from the Sun's surface, Parker Solar Probe will be the closest a human-made object's ever been to our host star. Reading time 3 minutes The Sun is getting a surprise visitor for ...

The heavily armored Parker Solar Probe has traveled to within just 3.86 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the sun’s surface — what NASA calls “hyper close.” It’s the third time it has ...

On December 24, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe attempted to “touch” the sun and emerge unscathed. The closest approach ever made by a human-made object to our nearest star saw the spacecraft come within ...

The Parker Solar Probe is attempting the closest ever pass of the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. An image from the Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR instrument of a coronal streamer of the sun, about 16.9 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Artist’s concept of the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft ...

A University of Iowa-led physics team has detailed the extreme expansion of a magnetic cloud that originated from a huge, gaseous explosion on the sun. In a new study, the researchers describe the ...