NASA's Solar Probe Plus mission is moving ahead with its daring 2018 launch to study the sun's super-heated atmosphere.

The Solar Probe Plus is scheduled to launch from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida atop a Delta 4-Heavy rocket. Over the course of six years, the probe will make 24 elliptical orbits of ...

Solar Probe Plus—NASA's ambitious mission to fly through and examine the sun's atmosphere—has reached a key stage of development. Solar Probe Plus will begin advanced design, development, and testing, ...

In 2018, NASA plans to launch the Solar Probe Plus mission to the sun. Earth is about 93 million miles from the sun, and Solar Probe Plus is slated to get within 4 million miles of the blazing star.

Solar Probe Plus also is expected to make important contributions to the understanding and prediction of the radiation environment future space explorers will encounter when they leave Earth’s ...

Solar Probe Plus — NASA’s ambitious mission to fly through and examine the sun’s atmosphere — has reached a key stage of development. Solar Probe Plus will begin advanced design ...

Solar Probe Plus is due to launch next year and will face heat and radiation unlike any spacecraft in history.

NASA will send a probe to “touch the sun” to help prepare for a “huge solar event” that could wreak havoc on Earth. The space agency today announced the “extraordinary and historic ...

The Solar Probe Plus mission will start with the launch of a spaceship that will complete 24 orbits of the sun. Then, after completing seven flybys of Venus to get closer and closer, the ...

The Solar Probe Plus spacecraft will fly through the outer corona of our host star, which is essentially the sun's atmosphere.

NASA's prepping its Solar Probe Plus mission for a firey sundive. It's no theatrical stunt--it's all about science and understanding how our sun works, which doesn't make it a bit less awesome.

Solar Probe Plus — NASA’s ambitious mission to fly through and examine the sun’s atmosphere — has reached a key stage of development.Solar Probe Plus will begin advanced design ...