Close-up measurements from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe are giving scientists an unprecedented look at how the solar wind gains energy and speeds away from the sun.

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 has completed a historic milestone by traveling closer to the Sun than any spacecraft before it.

The Parker Solar Probe has now traced the sun’s outer frontier in unprecedented detail, turning a once-theoretical boundary into a mapped region of real, measured structure. By skimming through the ...

NASA announced on Wednesday that the agency's "unprecedented" mission to "touch the sun" will be named after the renowned astrophysicist Eugene Parker, whose work has revolutionized scientists' ...

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NASA's pioneering Parker Solar Probe is poised to make its closest-ever approach of the sun on Christmas Eve, a record-setting 3.8 million miles (6.2 million kilometers) from the surface. When two ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission has given scientists the first complete look at Venus' orbital dust ring, a collection of microscopic dust particles that circulates around the Sun along Venus' orbit ...