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

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 27th close approach to the Sun on March 11, again matching its record distance of 3.8 ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 27th close approach to the Sun in March 2026, gathering data from the corona to ...

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 ...

A NASA spacecraft aims to fly closer to the sun than any object sent before. The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 to get a close-up look at the sun. Since then, it has flown straight through ...

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It's exactly one year since a human-made spacecraft made the closest approach to the Sun in history. Called the Parker Solar Probe, the piece of technology came within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million ...

This artist’s concept depicts the boundary of the sun’s atmosphere that marks the point of no return for material that escapes the sun’s magnetic grasp. Deep dives through this area using NASA’s ...

A full-scale model of Parker Solar Probe, the history-making Johns Hopkins APL-built spacecraft that has flown closer to the ...

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Optical Telescope Element Pathfinder testing hardware, and a full-scale model of Parker Solar Probe ...