NASA’s Parker Solar Probe attempted to break the record for proximity to the sun as it whizzed by our star on Tuesday. The man-made object came within roughly 6,000,000 kilometres of the sun’s ...

The spacecraft came so close to our star that if the distance between Earth and the sun were the length of an American football field, the spacecraft would be about 4 yards from the end zone, ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made a historic milestone on Christmas Eve of last year, passing closer to the Sun than any spacecraft ever before. This remarkable flyby took place just 3.8 million ...

NASA said on Friday that its Parker Solar Probe was "safe" and operating normally after successfully completing the closest-ever approach to the sun by any human-made object. The spacecraft passed ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is set to pass the Sun on 24 December 2024. It's due to fly past the sun at 195 km/s, or 435,000 mph. "We are basically almost landing on a star," a scientist on the project ...

From one perspective, the Sun is a benevolent orb of plasma and its warmth makes Earth habitable and has kept it habitable for billions of years, allowing complex things like human beings to evolve.

NASA said on Friday that its Parker Solar Probe was “safe” and operating normally after successfully completing the closest-ever approach to the Sun by any human-made object. The spacecraft ...

NEW YORK (AP) — NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has successfully made the closest approach to the sun, the space agency confirmed Friday. Earlier this week, the spacecraft passed within a record ...

Images captured by Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR instrument during its record-breaking flyby of the Sun on Dec. 25, 2024, show the solar wind racing out from the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona.

NEW YORK (AP) — NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has successfully made the closest approach to the sun, the space agency confirmed Friday. Earlier this week, the spacecraft passed within a record ...

The Parker Solar Probe discovered that while the solar wind is a steady breeze near Earth, it is anything but at the sun. The spacecraft experienced switchbacks, or zigzag magnetic fields, when it ...