A study looking at data from NASA's Parker Solar Probe has found evidence for a "helicity barrier" in the atmosphere of the ...

During a record-smashing flight through the sun’s corona in Dec. 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured the closest-ever images of our home star. Now, NASA has finally revealed what the daredevil ...

While Parker tried to determine the origins of the solar wind before, it was in the wrong position, focused on a region of the Sun’s far side that was too distant to see what was going on in ...

Within two months of launching, the Parker Solar Probe in October 2018 moved within 26.55 million miles of the sun's surface, breaking the previous mark set by the Helios-2 spaecraft in 1976.

During the probe's Dec. 24 close approach, known as perihelion, NASA mission control will be unable to contact Parker for some three days. If successful, the probe will send a beacon tone to the ...

Launched in August 2018, the Parker Solar Probe was built to get up close and personal with our local star. Just two months after liftoff, it had already beaten the record for closest approach to ...

How Close Will the Parker Solar Probe Get to the Sun? The previous record was set in 2023, also by Parker, when it passed 4.51 million miles from the sun, breaking its own prior record from 2018 ...

The probe is expected to pass within 3.86 million miles of the sun on Dec. 24. The Parker Solar Probe will soon be the closest any human-made object has ever gotten to the sun. The probe ...

This holiday season is not immune to NASA barging in: On Dec. 24, the agency’s Parker Solar Probe will make its closest approach to the sun. At 6:53:48 a.m. Eastern, the spacecraft will be just ...

On its 17th probe around the sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe traveled at 394,736 miles per hour — making the probe the fastest human-made object in history. Good morning. I'm Michel Martin. A ...

NASA plans to complete a Parker solar landing in 2024, ... as the Parker solar probe will open the door to even more data on the sun and its surface. ... How We Test Products; Founded in 2006.

Within two months of launching, the Parker Solar Probe in October 2018 moved within 26.55 million miles of the sun's surface, breaking the previous mark set by the Helios-2 spaecraft in 1976.