"The data that will come down from the spacecraft will be fresh information about a place that we, as humanity, have never ...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came within 6.1 ...
NASA has confirmed that its Parker Solar Probe is safe and fully operational after its Christmas Eve close encounter with the ...
The Parker Solar Probe broke its record by flying closer to the sun than ever before, reaching a distance of just 3.8 million miles (6.1 million km) from its surface. During this encounter, the probe ...
On New Year's Day, NASA's Parker Solar Probe added to the festive cheer by sending home more good news about its record-breaking closest-ever approach to the sun. On Wednesday (Jan. 1), mission ...
NASA said scientists began receiving more detailed telemetry — or "housekeeping data" — from the spacecraft on New Year's Day.
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Parker Solar Probe reaches record 3.8 million miles from the Sun Achieves 430,000 mph, fastest speed for a human-made object Key mission in understanding the Sun's solar wind and particles ...
NASA's record-setting spacecraft was just 3.8 million miles from the sun's surface—the closest any human-made object has ever ...