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 ...

The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 to get a close-up look at the sun. Since then, it has flown straight through the sun's corona: the outer atmosphere visible during a total solar eclipse.

The Parker Solar Probe set a new record by flying just 3.8 million miles above the Sun’s surface, traveling at an unprecedented speed of 430,000 miles per hour—making it the fastest human-made ...

“We don’t have the power to model the ... his solar wind paper. “Storms in the solar wind form somewhere in the vicinity of where Solar Probe is going,” says Parker.

NASA will soon launch its Parker Solar Probe on a mission that will take it closer to the sun than any spacecraft in history. The probe will fly straight into the sun's outer atmosphere ...

On December 24, 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe arrived within 6.1 million km from the star’s surface. This is a short distance to be from the sun: no spacecraft has ever made such a close ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed its second close flyby of the sun, the space agency announced earlier this week. The car-sized spacecraft swooped within 3.8 million miles (6.1 ...

Again, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has flown near the sun to gather valuable information. On March 22, the spacecraft performed its latest flyby, passing within 8 million miles (6.1 million ...

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 ...

Rankin, "Survey of Energetic Particles Viewed by Parker Solar Probe." Since 2018, Parker Solar Probe has been sampling a largely unexplored regime near the sun, achieving a record-setting closest ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed a close flyby of the Sun on March 22, travelling at 692,000 kilometres per hour and approaching within 6.1 million kilometres of the solar surface.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe successfully completed its second science-gathering flyby of the sun, the space agency announced on Tuesday (March 25). | Credit: Steve Gribben/NASA/Johns Hopkins APL ...