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 completed its 27th close approach to the Sun in March 2026, gathering data from the corona to ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 27th close approach to the Sun on March 11, again matching its record distance of 3.8 million miles (6.2 million kilometers) from the solar surface.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made the closest flyby of the sun ever made by a spacecraft in Dec. 25. See the views it captured ...

The probe completed its 27th closest approach to the Sun this March.

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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' ...

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 ...

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