NASA’s daring Parker Solar Probe plunged deeper into the sun’s atmosphere than any human-made object before. While performing ...

The mission was greenlit and eventually named after Eugene Parker, the solar physicist who predicted the existence of the solar wind in the 1950s and lived to see the launch of his namesake probe ...

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.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will perform 24 orbits around the Sun with the next close solar passes occurring on 22 March and 19 ...

Set your Parker Solar Probe sun flyby clocks for Dec. 24 at ... will mark Parker's 22nd close encounter with the sun since its launch in 2018 (the first time it "touched the sun" was in 2021).

The NASA mission broke its own record as it seeks to teach us more about our Sun, as well as reveal other secrets of the ...

Since launch, it has been swinging around Venus ... signal confirming that the spacecraft survived the encounter. “Parker Solar Probe has phoned home!” NASA announced in a post on X at 12: ...

Eugene Parker came to the launch in 2018. Since then, the Parker Solar Probe has completed dozens of ever-tightening orbits about the sun, steadily clearing the fog of solar ignorance. It has ...

The Parker Solar Probe hitches a ride Aug. 12, 2018 aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy on its mission to the Sun. The Parker Solar Probe was launched Aug. 12, 2018 with the mission of ...

27 (UPI) --The Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed a historic ... Uncrewed SpaceX Starship explodes minutes after launch from Texas Jan. 16 (UPI) -- The upper stage of SpaceX's Starship ...

A NASA probe ventured closer to the sun than any spacecraft in history on Christmas Eve — and it whirled by at astounding speeds that also made it the fastest thing ever made by humans.

He attended the Parker Solar Probe’s launch in 2018, and died in 2022 at age 94. Counterintuitively, the laws of gravity make it hard to fly close to the sun. Objects orbiting the sun at a distance ...