NASA said scientists began receiving more detailed telemetry — or "housekeeping data" — from the spacecraft on New Year's Day.

The daring NASA spacecraft made its closest-ever approach to the sun at 6:53 a.m. EST (1153 GMT) on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24).

Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe added to the festive cheer by sending home its first detailed telemetry data soon after its ...

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 ...

An artist’s rendition of the Parker Solar probe’s close encounter with the sun on Christmas Eve. via REUTERS This broke the probe’s own speed record, making it the quickest thing assembled ...

Parker Solar Probe, AFP Photo/NASA/Johns Hopkins APL Speed: up to about 692,000 km/h on its final orbits Length: 3 m Weight: 685 kg at launch for solar probe to take The Barron's news department ...

NASA had to lose contact with the Parker Solar Probe during the flyby, and contact will be re-established on7.

Editor's Note: This story was originally published Dec. 24 and updated Friday, Dec. 27 at 10:45 a.m. EST to confirm that the Parker Solar ... probe was likely traveling at an incredible speed ...

Hurtling around the sun at approximately 430,000 mph, the uncrewed vehicle is expected to come within 3.8 million miles of ...

NASA's Parker Solar ... the probe set dual records: making the closest approach of any vehicle to the sun, coming within 4.5 million miles of it; and reaching the fastest speed of any spacecraft ...