The Parker Solar Probe had already made several close passes of the sun, but the recent flyby was ... and the bulb is warm to the touch but the air around it is a thousand times hotter.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew through the sun's atmosphere at a ridiculous 430,000 miles per hour, making it the fastest man made object and getting the closest to our star in history.

the sun remains the most foreboding. 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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A NASA spacecraft aims to fly closer to the sun than any object sent before. The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 to get a close-up look at the sun. Since then ...

Solar Orbiter began routine science operations in 2021 and has since looped ever closer to the Sun, stealing bits of speed ...

Parker Solar Probe’s incredible speed is attributed ... the spacecraft made history by becoming the first spacecraft to “touch the sun.” It successfully flew through the sun’s corona ...

The National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawai'i is the world's largest solar telescope and has ...

NASA's mission to "touch" the Sun has reached a historic milestone. On December 24, 2024, the Parker Solar Probe survived its closest approach ever to the solar surface, simultaneously setting a ...

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 8 million miles (6.1 ...

The probe aims to again "touch" the Sun when it flies up to about 430,000 mph at its closest approach "just 3.8 million miles" from the surface of the star at 6:53am on Tuesday ET, per NASA.