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. The ...

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

Almost no one ever writes about the Parker Solar Probe anymore.

It’s actually that same gas that is multi-million degree hot also generates the solar wind. So Parker– when we built Parker Solar Probe, we have these three big phenomena in mind. But Parker Solar ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe went where no mission has gone before and came within 3.8 million miles (6 million kilometers) of ...

The probe is named after the late Eugene N. Parker, a pioneer in solar physics who predicted the existence of the solar wind. Designed to orbit the sun in highly elliptical loops, Parker uses ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has successfully made the closest ... of times hotter than its surface and what drives the solar wind, the supersonic stream of charged particles constantly blasting ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe could solve the mysteries of the solar wind and test Einstein’s theory of relativity.

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

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.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is preparing for its long-anticipated record-setting approach to the surface of the sun. Hurtling around the sun at approximately 430,000 mph, the uncrewed vehicle is ...