For Rawafi, this Parker Solar Probe mission is historic, a chance to learn more about the star that supports life on this planet. "Without the sun, there would be no life on Earth, there would be ...

The historic milestone is one NASA has been building toward ever since the Parker Solar Probe embarked in 2018 on a mission to study the sun's outer atmosphere. A signal from Parker received ...

New research led by a Southwest Research Institute scientist identified a new source of energetic particles near the Sun.

The Parker Solar Probe's mission is to study the sun in unprecedented detail. The revolutionary solar probe became the first spacecraft to "touch" the sun when it swooped inside the sun's outer ...

New research led by a Southwest Research Institute scientist identified a new source of energetic particles near the sun.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe dove extremely close to the solar surface on Dec. 24. The spacecraft should get nearer to the sun than any other human-made object in history — within 3.86 million miles.

KAZAKIEWICH SHOWS US WHAT THAT COULD TEACH US. BUT I WANT TO MAKE AT THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND AROUND THE SCIENCE WORLD, ANTICIPATION IS BUILDING FOR A SPECIAL MISSION. ON DECEMBER 24TH, WHICH HAS ...

Parker Solar Probe mission operations manager at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL) in Maryland, in a statement. "We're excited to hear back from the spacecraft when it swings ...

A NASA probe is about to launch on a mission to the sun in the name of protecting the Earth. On Saturday, the space agency's Parker Solar Probe is expected to launch to orbit, beginning its long ...

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It got closer to the sun than any other human-made object. Nour Rawafi is the project scientist for NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission and is with us now. Welcome, Nour. NOUR RAWAFI: Thank you so much.

Parker Solar Probe. Photo Illustration/NASA During the probe's Dec. 24 close approach, known as perihelion, NASA mission control will be unable to contact Parker for some three days. If successful ...