"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 ...

a program scientist at NASA Headquarters and heliophysicist who worked on one of the mission's instruments. "By getting firsthand accounts of what's happening in the solar atmosphere, Parker Solar ...

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 ...

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 ...

The sun’s solar wind, made of charged particles, interacts with powerful eruptions, affecting cosmic rays and space weather.

While the probe’s primary mission is to study the sun, its instruments have captured rare data... NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will complete its final Venus gravity assist on 6 November ...

According to NASA’s ongoing operations with its solar probe, the agency plans to complete a “solar landing” with the Parker spacecraft. Of course, it is worth noting that this solar ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came ...

But there’s so much we don’t know about it. And we’re going to learn so much more thanks to the Parker Solar Probe. This little spacecraft managed to do something historic this week. It got closer to ...