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By Elizabeth Howell Published
The visible-light imagery will tell scientists more about the geology and minerals of Venus.

By Elizabeth Howell Published
A new video of solar streamers evokes the streaking stars seen during spacecraft hyperdrives in "Star Wars."

By Elizabeth Howell Published
In the superheated corona, the spacecraft was "flying into the eye of a storm," NASA says

By Elizabeth Howell Published
The Parker Solar Probe set a new mark for distance and speed as it creeps closer to the sun.

By Charles Q. Choi Published
The fastest spacecraft ever flown, NASA's Parker Solar Probe, regularly experiences high-speed collisions with dust particles that create explosions of plasma, a new study finds.

By Meghan Bartels Published
NASA's sun-grazing spacecraft is making its ninth daring dive past our neighborhood star in a continuing quest to puzzle out secrets of how the sun works.

By Meghan Bartels Published
Halfway through a series of opportunistic Venus observations, scientists say that a NASA sun spacecraft's success studying our strange neighbor will pave the way for future measurements.

By Meghan Bartels Published
As the sun's activity waxes and wanes, so does the ionosphere of Venus, a key layer in the upper atmosphere, according to new observations that cinch a decades-old suspicion.

By Meghan Bartels Published
NASA's Parker Solar Probe nailed its fourth swing past Venus on Feb. 20, and mission scientists celebrated by releasing a stunning image captured during a similar maneuver in July.

By Meghan Bartels Published
NASA's Parker Solar Probe spacecraft kicked off the new year with another close approach to the sun on Sunday (Jan. 17) as the sun's activity picks up from a lull when the probe launched.
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