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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of the sun's elusive Alfvén surface, the point of no return beyond which solar ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has been on a groundbreaking mission to study the Sun like never before. Recently, it made another historic flyby, getting closer to the Sun than any spacecraft before it, ...

Sixty years ago, NASA set an out-of-this-world goal: to touch our sun. Sending a spacecraft to the fiery star at the center of our solar system is no small feat. From engineering a spacecraft that ...

The sun may not be green, but it turns out to be adept at recycling. NASA's Parker Solar Probe has captured the clearest view yet of solar material billowing away from the sun before some of it makes ...

It's exactly one year since a human-made spacecraft made the closest approach to the Sun in history. Called the Parker Solar Probe, the piece of technology came within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million ...

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' ...

Please join the Lowell Center for Space Science & Technology on Thursday, Feb. 19 at 11 a.m. for the talk "Exploring the Sun's Alfvén Surface in the era of Parker Solar Probe" by Sam Badman, Center ...

For the millions of people across North America who will be treated to a total solar eclipse on April 8, it will be spectacular show — a chance to see the moon fully obscure the sun’s face. But for ...

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 ...