According to APL, the three main scientific objectives of the Parker Solar Probe are: Trace the flow of energy that heats and accelerates the solar corona and solar wind. Determine the structure ...

For the first time in history, a spacecraft has flown through the Sun’s atmosphere, gathering crucial data about our closest ...

On Tuesday, the Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the sizzling solar atmosphere and passed within a record-breaking 3.8 million miles of the sun's surface. Just before midnight Thursday ...

Languages: English. NASA's Parker Solar Probe has once again made history, completing its closest-ever approach to the sun on December 24, 2024. Hurtling through the solar corona at an astonishing ...

NASA's Parker Solar Space Probe got closer to the sun than any other human-made object. NPR talks to the scientist behind the project, Nour Rawafi. Here's what I know about the sun - it's big ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has survived an up-close encounter with the sun, officially coming closer to the fiery star than any other spacecraft before it. The record-breaking solar approach took ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is preparing for its long-anticipated record-setting approach to the surface of the sun. Hurtling around the sun at approximately 430,000 mph, the uncrewed vehicle is ...

The probe is expected to pass within 3.86 million miles of the sun on Dec. 24. The Parker Solar Probe will soon be the closest any human-made object has ever gotten to the sun. The probe ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (PSP) launched in 2018 and has spent ... the PSP has flown close enough to the Sun to detect the fine structure of the solar wind, at the point of its creation.

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 ...

Editor's Note: This story was originally published Dec. 24 and updated Friday, Dec. 27 at 10:45 a.m. EST to confirm that the Parker Solar Probe had survived its latest rendezvous with the sun.

Parker is attempting to be the closest a human-made object has been to the sun. NASA is gearing up for its Parker Solar Probe to do a final flyby of Venus on Wednesday on its way to making history ...