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 ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe was able to observe the Sun close enough to image the region where the solar wind originates. NASA scientists had previously predicted that it starts close to the ...

For the first time in history, a spacecraft has flown through the Sun’s atmosphere, gathering crucial data about our closest star. The Parker Solar Probe is an engineering marvel, built to withstand ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New research led by a Southwest Research Institute scientist identified a new source of energetic particles near the sun.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Icarus has nothing on NASA. The space agency’s Parker Solar Probe survived the latest endeavor in its mission to “touch” the sun – flying just 3.8 million miles above the star’s surface ...