The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) mission team in Laurel, Maryland, received the spacecraft’s signal just before midnight EST on December 26. Contact was lost during the closest ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched on Aug. 12, 2018, aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket. The Parker Solar Probe's mission is to study the sun in unprecedented detail.

Hurtling around the sun at approximately 430,000 mph, the uncrewed vehicle is expected to come within 3.8 million miles of ...

Nasa did not have contact with the spacecraft during the historic feat as it endured temperatures of up to 982 degrees ...

He attended the Parker Solar Probe’s launch in 2018, and died in 2022 at age 94. Counterintuitively, the laws of gravity make it hard to fly close to the sun. Objects orbiting the sun at a ...

Parker Solar Probe mission operations manager, said in a press release in December. "We're excited to hear back from the spacecraft when it swings back around the Sun." The Parker Solar Probe is ...

A NASA spacecraft is getting ready for a record-setting “closest-ever flight” to the Sun on Christmas Eve. The Parker Solar ...

The probe was launched in 2018 and first entered the solar atmosphere in 2021. Its latest achievement comes six months after ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has survived an up-close ... the space agency said in a news release. Two days after the probe zipped within 3.8 million miles of the sun, it managed to transmit a ...

NASA said in a news release. It's a historic milestone that NASA has been building toward ever since the Parker Solar Probe embarked in 2018 on a mission to study the sun's outer atmosphere.