NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has called home, sending a signal confirming that it survived a historically close encounter with ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The Parker Solar Probe, named after scientist Eugene Parker, who first theorized the existence of solar wind, aims to be the first manmade tool to “touch the Sun,” as NASA says, and it just ...

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 ...

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 ...

Parker Solar Probe mission overview ... pull as a slingshot to reduce its distance from the Sun, incrementally drawing closer with each pass. Critical milestone for Parker’s mission success ...

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 ...

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 ...