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 ...

The Northern New Mexico lab designed two of 10 instruments aboard NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe.

Using the Parker Solar Probe, NASA achieved what was once impossible — flying directly into the Sun’s outer atmosphere to ...

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The new space station crew includes American Chris Williams, who holds a Ph.D. in astronomy and is a board-certified medical ...

The Parker Solar Probe snapped these images of the sun about 3.8 million miles from the solar surface.That's the closest any probe has ever gotten to the sun.The new close-ups show the solar wind and ...

The space agency got a close look at the interstellar visitor over the past few months as it zipped by Mars and the sun ...

While making a death-defying dive through the sun’s atmosphere, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has directly recorded a powerful plasma explosion heading toward our star’s surface in unprecedented detail.

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' ...

Sunspot AR3186 erupted with an X1-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has spent the last several months on a tour of our solar system. NASA spacecraft and telescopes ...