A NASA spacecraft is "safe" after making the closest-ever approach to the sun by a human-made object, the space agency says. The Parker Solar Probe came within 3.8 million miles of the sun's ...

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 ...

hitting speeds of 690,000 km/h at closest approach. Its instruments are protected from the sun by a 11.43-centimetre carbon-composite shield, which can withstand temperatures reaching nearly 1,377 C.

The fastest object ever built by humans will fly within a whisker of the sun today. The Parker Solar Probe will race past at 435,000mph as it studies the sun's surface and atmosphere. That's so ...

A Nasa spacecraft is attempting to make history with the closest-ever approach to the Sun. The Parker Solar Probe is plunging into our star's outer atmosphere, enduring brutal temperatures and ...

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