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 slipped closer to the Sun than any spacecraft in history, and its latest flyby has now delivered the most intimate images ever captured of our star. The new views do more ...

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

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

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.

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 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 ...