A little over a year ago, and about 150 million kilometers (93 million miles) from where you’re currently reading this, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe quietly made history by safely flying through ...

NASA will soon launch its Parker Solar Probe ... NASA has prepped the probe with four highly-tuned sensors and an impressive heat shield that will protect the probe’s instruments.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has called home ... The spacecraft, launched six years ago, carries a suite of instruments for ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe made history on Tuesday with a record ... scientists with insights into Venus, thanks to onboard instruments capable of capturing visible and near-infrared light from ...

A Delta IV Heavy rocket with an added upper stage will boost NASA’s Parker Solar Probe away from Earth ... The spacecraft will dip its instruments into the solar wind, the way a mariner might ...

The instruments aboard the Parker Solar Probe are also protected from the scorching heat of the sun by the heat shield. The probe is able to examine the sun close up due to the fact that its ...

Among the various places humans have aspired to visit in the solar system, the sun remains the most foreboding. On December 24, 2024, NASA’s Parker ... the probe’s scientific instruments ...

NASA's Parker ... probe from the sun's intense heat, enabling its electronics and instruments to function at room temperature — even while it faces directly toward our star to collect solar ...

The innovative team of engineers and scientists from NASA, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, and more than 40 other partner organizations across the country that created the revolutionary ...

While the probe’s primary mission is to study the sun, its instruments have captured rare data... NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will complete its final Venus gravity assist on 6 November ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe shatters its own speed record, soaring just 8 million miles above the sun's surface, collecting vital information on the solar wind and corona to enhance space weather ...