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 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 ...

L aunched into space in 2018, the Parker Solar Probe is increasingly tightening its orbit around the Sun. The most significant moment of the mission will occur on 24th December 2024.

Operations teams have confirmed NASA's mission to "touch" the sun survived its ... will remain in this orbit for the remainder of its primary mission. "Parker Solar Probe is braving one of the ...

NASA did this by sending the Parker probe close to Venus many times. Each Venus flyby adjusted the probe’s orbit in a way that brought it closer to the sun with each solar flyby.

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.

27 (UPI) --The Parker Solar Probe has successfully ... It won't be the last time the Parker probe passes close to the sun. Its oval-shaped orbit will bring it back to within 3.8 million miles ...

"The data that will come down from the spacecraft will be fresh information about a place that we, as humanity, have never ...

Here’s what I know about the sun - it’s big, it’s hot and if I stay out in it too long, my skin starts to peel. But there’s so much we don’t know about it. And we’re going to learn so much more thanks ...

The Parker Solar Probe will soon be the closest any human-made object has ever gotten to the sun. The probe, engineered to study the corona -- the outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere, launched ...

Reiff said the recent flyby of Venus not only helped change the Parker Solar Probe's orbit so it could get close to the sun, but it also helped scientists learn more about Venus, including data that ...