NASA is gearing up for its Parker Solar Probe to do a final flyby of Venus on Wednesday on its way to making history as the closest any human-made object has ever been to the sun. Parker will use the ...

The spunky probe's final gravity assist around Venus will put it on track to break records near the Sun next month. Reading time 2 minutes NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will make its seventh and final ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has done an extraordinary job teaching us about our Sun while achieving record distances from the latter’s surface, coming within 4.51 million miles (7.26 million kilometers) ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe zoomed past Venus on Aug. 21, using the planet’s gravity to aim toward a record-setting series of flights around the Sun that start next month. At just before 8:03 a.m. EDT, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Europe's most advanced interplanetary space probe lost contact with Earth for nearly a full day leading up to a crucial flyby of ...

An exceptionally heavy interplanetary probe is on an eight-year journey to Jupiter, using the gravity of Earth and Venus to propel it on its path toward the gas giant. Just weeks before its scheduled ...