A spacecraft traveling at one-tenth of the speed of light could shave the trip down to a quick 40 years. Future engineers could use nuclear power to achieve that, says Scott Bailey, an engineer at ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe team won the 2024 Collier Trophy for boldly venturing into the Sun’s atmosphere. With revolutionary ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe just screamed past the Sun for the 23rd time, once again matching its own records for closest ...

The innovative team of engineers and scientists from NASA, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, and more than 40 other partner organizations across the country that ...

As the first to touch the sun and fastest human-made object ever built, Parker Solar Probe is a testament to human ingenuity and discovery." Said Johns Hopkins University President Ron Daniels: "The ...

The spacecraft will reach speeds of 430,000 mph, making it the fastest human-made object. Scientists hope the mission will help explain why the sun’s outer atmosphere is far hotter than its surface.

The spacecraft will reach speeds of 430,000 mph, making it the fastest human-made object. Scientists hope the mission will help explain why the sun’s outer atmosphere is far hotter than its surface.