NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has spent the past year repeatedly diving into the sun’s outer atmosphere at speeds no human-made object has ever reached, and the scientific payoff is rewriting what ...

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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 ...

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For the first time in history, a spacecraft has flown through the outer atmosphere of the Sun. This video breaks down what ...

When taking the measurements for this study, the Parker Solar Probe, pictured here in an artist's impression, traveled at more than 427,000 miles per hour, making it the fastest human-made object in ...

Sixty years ago, NASA set an out-of-this-world goal: to touch our sun. Sending a spacecraft to the fiery star at the center of our solar system is no small feat. From engineering a spacecraft that ...

Please join the Lowell Center for Space Science & Technology on Thursday, Feb. 19 at 11 a.m. for the talk "Exploring the Sun's Alfvén Surface in the era of Parker Solar Probe" by Sam Badman, Center ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission has given scientists the first complete look at Venus' orbital dust ring, a collection of microscopic dust particles that circulates around the Sun along Venus' orbit ...