The Parker Solar Probe, traveling at 430,000 mph, reaches 3.8 million miles from the Sun. Scientists now wait for a signal ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is set to achieve its most dangerous feat yet tomorrow, December 24, 2024. After a six-year journey ...

D2 F14 broke apart, littering our planet's orbit with dozens of debris fragments. ...

Launched into space in 2018, the Parker Solar Probe is gradually tightening its orbit around the Sun. The most significant ...

Earth's rotation on its axis creates the illusion of the sun rising in the east and setting in the west. This rotation, coupled with Earth's orbit around the sun and its axial tilt, dictates our ...

NASA's spacecraft sets record for the closest approach to the sun, flying within 3.8 million miles while enduring extreme heat.

The Parker Solar Probe is expected to pass within an "unprecedented" 3.86 million miles of the solar surface on Dec. 24, ...

The International Space Station is an engineering feat that has led to countless scientific discoveries. Like the thousands ...

Starting Sunday, days will get a little bit longer in the Northern Hemisphere every single day until late June.

Despite Saturday marking the shortest day of the year, the sun will continue rising later in the morning. Here is why.

Welcome to astronomical winter. Our calendars mark the beginning of winter as Dec. 21 or 22 because of where Earth is in its ...

Thomas Zurbuchen was the head of science at NASA from 2016 to 2022.