The National Air and Space Museum’s Virginia location now displays the objects which represent critical leaps forward in ...
Parker Solar Probe reached "perihelion," the nearest point to the sun in its orbit, on Dec. 13, 2025. Credit: ASA / Johns Hopkins APL / Steve Gribben illustration A NASA spacecraft is making a close ...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has flown through the Sun’s corona again, completing its 27th close approach to the star and once more matching its own distance and speed records. The spacecraft skimmed ...
Sixty years ago, NASA set an out-of-this-world goal: to touch our sun. Sending a spacecraft to the fiery star at the center of our solar system is no small feat. From engineering a spacecraft that ...
The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum welcomes two new acquisitions to the collection—the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) Pathfinder and Parker Solar Probe model. The Pathfinder is a ...