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.

Without it, we wouldn’t be here ... a giant volatile ball of incredibly hot plasma is a tricky thing. The Parker Solar Probe, named after scientist Eugene Parker, who first theorized the ...

A Delta IV Heavy rocket with an added upper stage will boost NASA’s Parker Solar Probe away from Earth and ... times the dose of a typical CT scan. Without medical treatment, about half of ...

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 ...

Among the various places humans have aspired to visit in the solar system, the sun remains the most foreboding. On December 24, 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe arrived within 6.1 million km from ...

Parker Solar Probe operates closer to the Sun than any other spacecraft has ever ventured, at faster speeds than have ever been achieved — all to help us understand how our star affects Earth ...

The Parker Solar Probe mission is truly the first of its kind, venturing closer to our star than any spacecraft has ever dared, and it’s already broken a number of records. Now, the spacecraft ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...