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-breaking 3.8 million miles ...

for the first time and helped to shed new light on a decades-old mystery surrounding how the corona heats itself. The Parker Solar Probe is expected to make up to four more close flybys of the sun ...

Scientists are hoping NASA's Parker Solar Probe will get a unique taste of the ... Parker's data confirmed the decades-old hypothesis that a coronal mass ejection acts like a vacuum cleaner ...

There will be an upcoming space spectacle come the early morning of Christmas 2024, with NASA's already six-year-old spacecraft, the Parker Solar Probe, set to make another approach to the Sun.

He was one of the scientists who developed the proposal for the Parker Solar Probe in 2008. The data from the probe’s previous flybys confirmed a century-old hypothesis that there’s a dust ...

The Parker Solar Probe is attempting the closest ever pass ... those orbital interactions for this mission. Yanping Guo, the design and navigation manager for the mission at the Applied Physics ...

Just before 7 a.m. on Dec. 24, the Parker Solar Probe passed within just 3.8 million ... a 4.5 billion-year-old ball of hydrogen and helium that’s about halfway through its lifespan.

Probe Design and Future Plans The Parker Solar Probe is engineered to withstand extreme conditions. Its cutting-edge heat shield, made from carbon foam, protects the spacecraft's instruments and ...

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