The Parker Solar Probe had already made several close ... This kink, known as a switchback, travels away from the sun and deep into the corona. Eventually, the switchback dissolves, delivering ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission revealed the presence of switchbacks, sudden and rapid ... which are ubiquitous in the lower atmosphere of the sun. To investigate their origins, a team of ...

Yet Parker revealed dust-free pockets near the sun. The probe also detected magnetic switchbacks: parts of the solar wind where the magnetic field (created by the collective of charged particles ...

The Parker Solar Probe will sample this layer of the sun directly, and for the first time we will be able to retrieve information about the realm that connects Earth and our star. Comet tails were ...

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 was built to get up close and personal with our local star. Just two months after liftoff, it had already beaten the record for closest approach to the Sun by a spacecraft.

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 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 ...

An artist’s rendering of the Parker Solar Probe is seen approaching the sun. It’s designed to take solar punishment like never before, thanks to its revolutionary heat shield that’s capable ...

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 ...

On Dec. 24, 2024, Parker Solar Probe passed deep within the sun's corona, just 3.8 million miles above the sun's surface and at a top speed of close to 430,000 mph, ushering in a new era of scientific ...

Using data from the Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter, researchers observed that sharp magnetic switchbacks smooth out into gentler waves as they travel further from the Sun. This relaxation ...