NASA spent roughly a billion dollars to send a car‑sized robot into the Sun’s atmosphere, and to get there it had to ...

NASA’s latest close-up of our star is not just a pretty picture. When the Parker Solar Probe swooped to within 3.8 million miles of the Sun on Dec. 24, 2024, it delivered a view of the corona that no ...

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 successfully made the closest approach to the sun, the space agency confirmed Friday. Earlier this week, the spacecraft passed within a record-breaking 3.8 million miles ...

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Using data collected by NASA's Parker Solar Probe during its closest approach to the sun, a University of Arizona-led ...

A NASA mission is underway to map the heliosphere, which is a huge protective bubble around the solar system that was created by the sun.

NASA’s IMAP spacecraft studies charged particles, energetic neutral atoms, and magnetic fields at the heliosphere’s boundaries, providing real-time space weather data for Earth and spacecraft.

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 ...