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 ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe hits 430,000 mph near the Sun. Discover how its 4.5-inch shield protects it from 2,500°F ...

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 ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is alive! Two days after a historic Christmas Eve sun flyby that flew closer to the star than any spacecraft in history — taking the car-sized spacecraft nearly a tenth as ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 28th close approach to the Sun on June 8, again matching its record distance of 3.8 million miles from the solar surface.

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 ...

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 ...

BROUGHT A SAMPLE FROM THE BENNU ASTEROID TO EARTH. IN THIS PAST WEEK, RESEARCHERS SHARED THAT THE ASTEROID ACTUALLY CONTAINS THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF LIFE. THE ASTEROID HAD A BRINY BROTH, THAT BROTH ...