In August 2018, NASA's Parker Solar Probe (PSP) began its long journey to study the Sun's outer corona. After several gravity-assist maneuvers with Venus, the probe broke Helios 2's distance record ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has once again made history, completing its closest-ever approach to the sun on December 24, 2024. Hurtling through the solar corona at an astonishing 430,000 miles per ...

On August 12, 2018, NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe, a spacecraft designed to study the Sun and its environment. Since then, Parker has sped through the inner solar system, equipped with a suite ...

Editor's Note: This story was originally published Dec. 24 and updated Friday, Dec. 27 at 10:45 a.m. EST to confirm that the Parker Solar Probe had survived its latest rendezvous with the sun.

NASA's record-breaking Parker Solar Probe will smash its own personal bests for proximity to the sun and fastest speed by a human-made object when it whizzes past our star on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24).