Parker Solar Probe reached "perihelion," the nearest point to the sun in its orbit, on Dec. 13, 2025. Credit: ASA / Johns Hopkins APL / Steve Gribben illustration A NASA spacecraft is making a close ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is making its second of three planned close passes through the sun’s outer atmosphere. The spacecraft will reach speeds of 430,000 mph, making it the fastest human-made ...

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On its closest-ever flyby to the sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured newly released images of solar winds purging out from the sun's outermost atmosphere, the Corona. Scientists are learning more ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe passed into the outer atmosphere of the sun and took incredible images of the sun’s corona. Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with Nour Rawafi, astrophysicist and Parker Solar ...

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's mission to "touch" the sun has confirmed that it survived its record-breaking closest approach to the sun's surface on Dec. 24. Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles ...

An artist's conception of NASA's Parker Solar Probe passing through the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona. Credit: NASA Early on Christmas Eve in 2024, a NASA craft swooped at blazing speed through ...

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 ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has been breaking records since the day it launched as the fastest space mission in history. Now, six years after it embarked on its quest to study the Sun, Parker has set ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. NASA's Parker Solar Probe has once again made history, completing its ...