The sun, a searing hot sphere of gas primarily composed of hydrogen and helium, boasts surface and outer atmospheric ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe conducts groundbreaking studies of the Sun, revealing insights into solar winds and space weather ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is scheduled to make its closest approach yet to the Sun, approximately 3.8 million miles from the star's surface, on Christmas Eve. "No human-made object has ever passed ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe went where no mission has gone before and came within 3.8 million miles (6 million kilometers) of ...

The spacecraft survived scorching temperatures at a record proximity, and is expected to send details of its close call in ...

A Nasa spacecraft has made history by surviving the closest-ever approach to the Sun. Scientists received a signal from the ...

During the Dec. 24 sun flyby, the Parker Solar Probe will fly through the sun's corona, its super-hot outer atmosphere, to study exactly why the region is so hot and other solar phenomena.

Operations teams have confirmed NASA's mission to "touch" the sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024. Breaking its previous record by flying just 3 ...

Our sun is essentially a searing hot sphere of gas. Its mix of primarily hydrogen and helium can reach temperatures between 10,000 and 3.6 million degrees Fahrenheit on its surface and its ...

Parker Solar Probe can take measurements that help scientists better understand how the region gets so hot, trace the origin of the solar wind (a constant flow of material escaping the sun), and ...

A NASA spacecraft made history and is safe after making the closest-ever approach to the sun. On Tuesday, the Parker Solar Probe hurtled ... days during its burning-hot flyby.