The holiday season is a busy time for humankind’s sun-surfing spacecraft. This Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe will be going where no probe has gone before: a mere 3.8 million miles from the sun ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Parker Solar Probe has survived an up-close encounter with the sun, officially coming closer to the fiery star than any ...

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 sun’s crown-like atmosphere can be 200 times hotter than the sun’s surface, despite being farther away from the ultimate source of heat at the sun’s core. How the corona’s heat seemingly defies ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe matched its own distance and speed records on September 4, passing within 3.8 million miles of the Sun’s surface while moving at roughly 430,000 miles an hour. It was the ...

The stockings were all hung by the corona with care, In hopes that the Parker Solar Probe would soon be there. Almost no one ever writes about the Parker Solar Probe anymore. Sure, the spacecraft got ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Parker Solar Probe is preparing for its long-anticipated record-setting approach to the surface of the sun. Hurtling around ...

NASA's pioneering Parker Solar Probe made history Tuesday, flying closer to the sun than any other spacecraft, with its heat shield exposed to scorching temperatures topping 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit ...

In its closest-ever dive into the Sun’s atmosphere, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has returned stunning new images and data that bring scientists closer to solving one of the Sun’s biggest mysteries: how ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has once again made history, completing its closest-ever approach to the sun on December 24, 2024. Hurtling through the solar corona at an astonishing 430,000 miles per hour ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has called home, sending a signal confirming that it survived a historically close encounter with the sun, when it traveled to within 3.8 million miles of the flaring surface ...

This photo provided by NASA on July 15, 2025, was taken by Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR instrument during its record-breaking flyby of the Sun, showing the solar wind ...