"The data that will come down from the spacecraft will be fresh information about a place that we, as humanity, have never ...

The spacecraft flew within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface to "touch the sun" on Christmas ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe conducts groundbreaking studies of the Sun, revealing insights into solar winds and space weather ...

"The sun is doing different things than it did when we first launched," Nicholeen Viall, who is a co-investigator for the WISPR instrument onboard Parker Solar Probe, told reporters at the AGU ...

The Parker Solar Probe – named after physicist Eugene Parker who was ... in 2018 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission carries four instruments including magnetometers, an imager ...

NASA has confirmed that its Parker Solar Probe is safe and fully operational ... In the shade of this shield, the probe and its instruments remain at room temperature. Not surprisingly, there ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has beamed home its first detailed update eight days after making a record-breaking approach to the sun, the agency announced. The spacecraft confirmed its systems and ...

27 (UPI) --The Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed a historic ... is protected by a carbon foam shield which keeps the instruments onboard at a comfortable room temperature.

Parker Solar Probe has spent the last six years setting ... degrees Fahrenheit—hot enough to melt steel—while keeping the instruments behind it shaded at a comfortable room temperature.

According to NASA, the Parker Solar Probe reached speeds of up to 430,000 mph, enduring temperatures as high as 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit (982 Celsius). Although the probe is scheduled to orbit the sun ...

The probe accelerated to 430,000 mph, faster than any spacecraft has ever flown, traveling to within 3.8 million miles of the star’s surface.