NASA has confirmed that the Parker Solar Probe is "safe" after becoming the closest human-made object to the Sun, flying within 6.1 million kilometers of its surface and enduring temperatures up ...

On Dec. 24, 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe achieved humanity’s closest-ever encounter with the Sun, soaring a record-breaking 3.8 million miles from its surface at 430,000 mph.

On Christmas Eve (Dec. 24) NASA's parker Solar Probe made its closest approach to the sun yet, passing through the blisteringly hot outer atmosphere of our star.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched in 2018 and has completed 21 close flybys around the sun. However, its mission on Christmas Eve will be unlike any other. At 6:53 a.m. ET, the spacecraft is set ...

A NASA illustration shows the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft approaching the sun. On Christmas Eve, the probe will pass just 3.8 million miles from the star in the deepest exploration of the sun's ...

NASA hopes the Parker Solar Probe will help solve the most perplexing mysteries of the sun. Astrophysicist Nour Rawafi explains the spacecraft's mission to "touch the sun" on Christmas Eve 2024.

The Parker Solar Probe dives much deeper. It gets as close as five solar diameters from the Sun, within the outer edges of the corona. Each solar diameter is about 865,000 miles (1,400,000 ...

Parker Solar Probe has performed 18 solar encounters thus far, with the closest being at a distance of 4.51 million miles (7.26 million kilometers) from the Sun on December 28, 2023.

Launching in 2018, Parker Solar Probe will provide new data on solar activity and make critical contributions to our ability to forecast major space-weather events that impact life on Earth.

Fortunately, the sun is approaching solar maximum, and Parker as well as other observatories may get more opportunities to observe these fearsome CMEs. A paper on this research was published on ...