NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas ... and using the planet’s gravity to gradually inch its orbit closer to the sun, making 21 increasingly close flybys along the way.

NASA's mission to "touch" the sun has confirmed that it survived ... The spacecraft will remain in this orbit for the remainder of its primary mission and potentially for many years after that.

The Parker Solar Probe, partly designed by students and researchers in Colorado, survived its closest encounter with our sun late last week ... many thousands of times per orbit and any one ...

After launching in 2018, the Parker Solar Probe used Venus to gravitationally adjust its orbit and boost it closer to the Sun, ultimately bringing it within a close but manageable distance from ...

That’s why Parker Solar Probe continues its mission, to help humanity learn to interpret the signals the Sun emits, which we can record in orbit, from Earth. We can then incorporate them into ...

NASA has confirmed that its Parker Solar Probe is safe and ... closer and closer to the Sun. With its final encounter with Venus in November 2024, it is now in an orbit that not only has brought ...

Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking ... The spacecraft will remain in this orbit for the remainder of its primary mission. “Parker Solar ...

NASA’s pioneering Parker Solar ... sun. After its launch in 2018, the probe has been gradually circling closer towards the sun, using flybys of Venus to gravitationally pull it into a tighter orbit.

The boundaries of space science are being pushed by each new dataset. In addition to Sun measurements, the Parker Solar Probe observed radio emissions from Venus' atmosphere, investigated comets, and ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe ... crucial data on solar activity, which affects life on Earth directly. Now the probe has completed 21 orbits around the Sun. Each orbit is followed by a pass-around ...