"The data that will come down from the spacecraft will be fresh information about a place that we, as humanity, have never ...
The sun’s solar wind, made of charged particles, interacts with powerful eruptions, affecting cosmic rays and space weather.
The spacecraft flew within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface to "touch the sun" on Christmas ...
Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles (around 6.1 million kilometers) above the surface of the sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a blazing ...
On Tuesday, 24 December 2024, NASA's Parker Solar Probe achieved something unprecedented ... but may also shape its future on a global scale and in the long term. The Sun is the best-known ...
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 ...
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 ...
Icarus has nothing on NASA. The space agency’s Parker Solar Probe survived the latest endeavor in its mission to “touch” the sun – flying just 3.8 million miles above the star’s surface ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Artist’s concept of the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft approaching the sun. Launching in ...
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 ...
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 ...