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 ...

"The structure of the regions with switchbacks ... at the boundaries where the magnetic funnels come together." Parker Solar Probe's next solar flyby is scheduled for late February 2022, although ...

As Parker passes through the outer reaches of the solar corona at a distance seven times closer than any previous probe, it will trace the flow of energy from the corona, map the structure and ...

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 ...

Another interesting aspect of the study is how the structure ... more convincing.” Parker’s ever closer encounters with the sun could confirm the source of the fast solar wind more definitively.

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 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 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 (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.

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 ...