The Parker Solar Probe's closest approach to the sun will occur on Dec. 24, 2024, during which the spacecraft will swoop to within 3.8 million miles of the solar surface. You may like ...

In an unprecedented achievement, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has reached a historic milestone: the spacecraft has successfully ...

How Close Will the Parker Solar Probe Get to the Sun? The previous record was set in 2023, also by Parker, when it passed 4.51 million miles from the sun, breaking its own prior record from 2018 ...

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

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.

The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 to get a close-up look at the sun. Before this week's historic milestone, Parker had flown straight through the sun's corona, the outer atmosphere ...

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.

NASA'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 – in its closest-ever approach on ...

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The plucky Parker Solar Probe is now closer to the Sun than any other spacecraft before it, coming within 26.55 million miles of our star on October 29th, and of course it’s still pushing onward.

How Close Will the Parker Solar Probe Get to the Sun? The previous record was set in 2023, also by Parker, when it passed 4.51 million miles from the sun, breaking its own prior record from 2018 ...

The Parker Solar Probe was launched Aug. 12, 2018 with the mission of coming within 4 million miles of the sun's surface to study the formation of the solar wind.