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 ...

BROUGHT A SAMPLE FROM THE BENNU ASTEROID TO EARTH. IN THIS PAST WEEK, RESEARCHERS SHARED THAT THE ASTEROID ACTUALLY CONTAINS THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF LIFE. THE ASTEROID HAD A BRINY BROTH, THAT BROTH ...

Something mysterious is going on at the Sun. In defiance of all logic, its atmosphere gets much, much hotter the farther it stretches from the Sun’s blazing surface. Temperatures in the corona — the ...

The Parker Solar Probe signaled to operators that it was still operating normally after traveling within 3.8 million miles of the Sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. The Parker Solar Probe signaled to ...

While making a death-defying dive through the sun’s atmosphere, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has directly recorded a powerful plasma explosion heading toward our star’s surface in unprecedented detail.

On December 24, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe attempted to “touch” the sun and emerge unscathed. The closest approach ever made by a human-made object to our nearest star saw the spacecraft come within ...

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 ...

Images from the Parker Solar Probe’s record-setting pass by the Sun last year are finally available. The spacecraft survived scorching temperatures at a record proximity, and is expected to send ...

A NASA spacecraft made history and is safe after making the closest-ever approach to the sun. On Tuesday, the Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the sizzling solar atmosphere and passed within a ...

Almost no one ever writes about the Parker Solar Probe anymore. Sure, the spacecraft got some attention when it launched. It is, after all, the fastest-moving object that humans have ever built. At ...

For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields ...

On December 24, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will make the closest-ever approach to the sun by a spacecraft. Parker has made more than 20 close approaches to the sun before, but this one will swoop in ...