An illustration showing the Parker Solar Probe passing by the sun. NASA On December 24, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe attempted to “touch” the sun and emerge unscathed.

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 ...

This holiday season is not immune to NASA barging in: On Dec. 24, the agency’s Parker Solar Probe will make its closest approach to the sun. At 6:53:48 a.m. Eastern, the spacecraft will be just ...

The Soviet Venus probe Kosmos 482 is expected to fall to Earth on May 10, but exactly when and where remains unknown. ... That five-decade stay in space could come to an end today.

More important, a Falcon 9 will be used to launch the European Space Agency's $390 million Hera asteroid probe from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station around Oct. 7, followed by launch of NASA ...

The first-ever images of the sun’s south pole reveal a messy jumble of magnetic activity in a never-before-seen region of our nearest star. The images, taken by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft and ...