NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is a groundbreaking mission aimed at uncovering the secrets of our Sun. It became the first ...

Is it possible to look into the very heart of the Sun and not blink? NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has approached closer than any ...

The 'helicity barrier' has been directly confirmed, offering new insights into the heating and formation of the solar wind.

The Parker Solar Probe passed within 6.5 million miles of the sun's surface—and NASA wants to fly it even closer. By Hannah Seo Published Dec 15, 2021 1:00 PM EST ...

After setting off back in 2018 on a history-making mission to study the Sun by getting up close and personal with its atmosphere, NASA's Solar Parker Probe has finally entered this region area for ...

NASA/Johns Hopkins APL. In August 2018, NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe toward the sun to analyze and measure the G-type yellow dwarf star that makes life on Earth possible. Now, after the ...

The Parker Solar Probe picked up crucial clues about our star as it flew through a coronal mass ejection. NASA's probe is circling the sun, getting ever closer as it dives into its atmosphere. The ...

Parker Solar Probe has performed 18 solar encounters thus far, with the closest being at a distance of 4.51 million miles (7.26 million kilometers) from the Sun on December 28, 2023.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe on Dec. 14, 2021, ... The findings were also announced Tuesday at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in New Orleans. Sign up. Advertisement.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024. Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles above the surface of ...

Dec. 14, 2021 — On April 28, 2021, NASA's Parker Solar Probe reached the sun's extended solar atmosphere, known as the corona, and spent five hours there. The spacecraft is the first to enter ...

NASA set a goal to reach the sun around 60 years ago to answer fundamental questions about the center of our solar system, and it launched the Parker Solar Probe in 2018, Ashley Strickland reports ...