NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made a historic attempt to circle the sun at 6:53 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Christmas Eve, which, if ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the sun than any human-made object ever — a stunning technological feat that ...

Space agency’s Parker Solar Probe flies closer to the sun than any spacecraft during the first of three planned flybys.

Venus will pass to the north of the much-fainter bluish star Regulus (in Leo, the Lion) on the morning of Sept. 19; the planet and star will appear low in the east-northeast predawn sky, separated by ...

The mission’s close-up with the sun is the culmination of a dream that dates to the dawn of the space age, but progress was ...

NASA has released its final goals and objectives for low Earth orbit, laying out a long-term plan to expand microgravity ...

With the James Webb Space Telescope and updated processing techniques, researchers have detected asteroids just tens of ...

Space Solar, a U.K. startup, is collaborating with two other companies to build an energy-generating solar system in space.

Space missions to the moon, Mars and beyond often get the most attention, but NASA's Near Space Network does a lot of heavy ...

On Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe is set to become the closest spacecraft to the sun when it flies within a few ...

On Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe was set to become the closest spacecraft to the sun, flying within a few million miles of the solar surface.

The Parker Solar Probe will swoop just 6.1 million kilometers above the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. Scientists are ...