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 ...

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 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 first time NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has observed a big magnetic burst in the sun’s corona, this event could ...

Eugene Parker, pioneer of theoretical solar and plasma astrophysics, was born June 10, 1927. Parker revolutionized the field ...

The Parker Solar Probe is providing NASA researchers with ... when the magnetic field is in the throes of reversing direction, the structure of the field becomes more complex, and more coronal ...

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 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 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 ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter, which launched in 2020 from Cape Canaveral, captured the first-ever images of the ...