Sending a spacecraft toward the Sun sounds like a recipe for instant destruction, yet one NASA mission was built to do ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has made headlines again by successfully completing an autonomous close approach to the Sun and confirming that all its systems are operating normally. On September 18, 2025, ...

Next summer’s maiden, unmanned mission to the sun’s atmosphere will travel at 430,000 miles per hour, whipping the distance between New York City and Tokyo in about a minute’s time, NASA scientists ...

New research led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has confirmed decades-old theoretical models of magnetic reconnection, the process that releases stored magnetic energy to drive solar flares, ...

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 ...

Images captured by NASA's Parker Solar Probe as the spacecraft made its record-breaking closest approach to the sun in December 2024 have now revealed new details about how solar magnetic fields ...

The Parker Solar Probe, a spacecraft designed to study the Sun up close, reached a major milestone today by making its closest approach ever to our star. Traveling at 430,000 miles per hour, the probe ...

Learn how the Parker Solar Probe's passage through the Sun's outer atmosphere has shed light on the process that creates solar flares. What fuels the Sun’s mightiest solar flares? The Parker Solar ...

Imagine une voiture qui roule 1 300 fois plus vite qu’une Formule 1 en pleine ligne droite. C’est à peu près ce que fait en ce moment un petit engin de la taille d’une voiture, quelque part entre le S ...

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum welcomes two new acquisitions to the collection—the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) Pathfinder and Parker Solar Probe model. The Pathfinder is a ...

NASA announced on Wednesday that the agency's "unprecedented" mission to "touch the sun" will be named after the renowned astrophysicist Eugene Parker, whose work has revolutionized scientists' ...