NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has flown closer to the Sun than any spacecraft in history, revealing new clues about the corona, ...

One of the biggest unanswered questions in solar physics may have gained an unexpected new lead. Researchers analyzing ...

Plus, the Parker Solar Probe took another trip around the sun, solar energy overtook coal in May, and more. Here's this week's science news. NASA's Parker Solar Probe made another close pass around ...

Several years after its successful launch, the Parker Solar Probe is making history, effectively touching the Sun to study how our star generates the solar wind of energetic particles it blasts ...

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 ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, a sun-investigating spacecraft that made history last year when it flew through the sun’s corona, has made another swing around the sun. And this time it was watched by both ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Artist’s concept of the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has become the first spacecraft ever to fly through a coronal mass ejection from the sun—a powerful eruption of billions of tons of plasma. The closest spacecraft to the sun, ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe zoomed past Venus on Aug. 21, using the planet's gravity to aim toward a record-setting series of flights around the sun that start next month. At just before 8:03 a.m. EDT, ...

The fastest spacecraft ever flown, NASA's Parker Solar Probe, regularly experiences high-speed collisions with dust particles that create explosions of plasma, a new study finds. NASA's sun-grazing ...