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 ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has been breaking records since the day it launched as the fastest space mission in history. Now, six years after it embarked on its quest to study the Sun, Parker has ...

Parker Solar Probe’s incredible speed is attributed ... Scientists are also keen to understand the structure and behavior of coronal mass ejections (CMEs). These massive eruptions of plasma ...

"This mission's trailblazing research is rewriting the textbooks on solar science by going to a place no human-made object has ever been." ...

Since 2018, Parker Solar Probe has been sampling a largely unexplored regime ... and interactions with various types of plasma and magnetic structures, emphasizing new insights gained about particle ...

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 ...

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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 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.

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 ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission has traveled closer to the Sun than any human-made object before it. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted ...

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 ...