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Newly released imagery from NASA shows the Sun's corona in stunning detail after the Parker Solar probe performed its closest ...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is a groundbreaking mission aimed at uncovering the secrets of our Sun. It became the first ...
We are witnessing where space weather threats to Earth begin, with our eyes, not just with models.” With these words, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate spokesperson Nicky Fox conveyed the wonder that ...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe is on a mission to study the sun closer than ever before. Learn more about the fastest spacecraft to date in our solar probe guide.
Within two months of launching, the Parker Solar Probe in October 2018 moved within 26.55 million miles of the sun's surface, breaking the previous mark set by the Helios-2 spaecraft in 1976.
Before Parker Solar Probe’s mission is done, it will have made 21 close approaches to the sun over the course of seven years. The probe will orbit within 3.9 million miles of the sun’s surface ...
NASA plans to complete a Parker solar landing in 2024, ... However, this research is well worth the risk, as the Parker solar probe will open the door to even more data on the sun and its surface.
The Parker Solar Probe is expected to pass within an "unprecedented" 3.86 million miles of the solar surface on Dec. 24, according to NASA. "It's about to be on its closest approach to the sun ...
While Parker tried to determine the origins of the solar wind before, it was in the wrong position, focused on a region of the Sun’s far side that was too distant to see what was going on in ...
NASA has launched a mission to get closer than it's ever gotten before to the sun, its corona and solar wind. After a 24-hour delay, the mission, called Parker Solar Probe, launched early Sunday.
NASA probe sets record as closest object to the sun 02:22. NASA's Parker Solar Probe has beamed home its first detailed update eight days after making a record-breaking approach to the sun, the ...
On Dec. 24 at 6:53 a.m. Eastern time, the Parker Solar Probe, a NASA spacecraft, will pass within 3.8 million miles of the sun’s surface, more than seven times closer than any previous mission has.