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 ...

The holiday season is a busy time for humankind’s sun-surfing spacecraft. This Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe will be going where no probe has gone before: a mere 3.8 million miles from the sun ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is making its second of three planned close passes through the sun’s outer atmosphere. The spacecraft will reach speeds of 430,000 mph, making it the fastest human-made ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has survived an up-close encounter with the sun, officially coming closer to the fiery star than any other spacecraft before it. The record-breaking solar approach took place ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Parker Solar Probe will soon be the closest any human-made object has ever gotten to the sun. The probe, engineered to study ...

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 ...

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 ...

Icarus may be known in Greek mythology as the one who flew too close to the sun. But today, it's NASA's Parker Solar Probe that turned the daring journey into reality. On Christmas Eve, the car-sized ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe dove extremely close to the solar surface on Dec. 24. The spacecraft should get nearer to the sun than any other human-made object in history — within 3.86 million miles. The ...