For perspective, that speed would get you from Philadelphia to Washington, DC in about one second. NASA wants to study the sun up close to be able to better predict solar weather, which affects ...

At the time of closest approach ... swung around the sun at about 692,000 kilometers per hour — fast enough to travel from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., in about a second.

In its 22nd close flyby, the probe will skim just 6.1 million kilometers (3.8 million miles) from the surface of the Sun, speeding by at around 192 km per second. NASA has received transmission ...

A Nasa spacecraft has made history by surviving the closest-ever approach to the Sun by any human-made object. Nasa said yesterday that its Parker Solar Probe was "safe" and operating normally ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has beamed home its first detailed update eight days after making a record-breaking approach to the sun, the agency announced. The spacecraft confirmed its systems and ...

A Nasa spacecraft has made history by surviving the closest-ever approach to the Sun. Scientists received a signal from the Parker Solar Probe just before midnight EST on Thursday (05:00 GMT on Friday ...

A Nasa spacecraft has made history by surviving the closest-ever approach to the Sun. Scientists received a signal from the Parker Solar Probe just before midnight on Thursday after it had been ...