The Parker Solar Probe, partly designed by students and researchers in Colorado, survived its closest encounter with our sun late last week, passing a mere 3.8 million miles from its surface. The ...

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NASA said on Friday that it received a signal from the Parker Solar Probe confirming that the spacecraft had survived its closest ever flyby of the sun. The approach took it just 3.8 million miles ...

On Christmas Eve 2024, a human-made spacecraft came closer to the Sun than any other piece of technology our species has ever made. The Parker Solar Probe, as it's called, came within 3.8 million ...

BROUGHT A SAMPLE FROM THE BENNU ASTEROID TO EARTH. IN THIS PAST WEEK, RESEARCHERS SHARED THAT THE ASTEROID ACTUALLY CONTAINS THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF LIFE. THE ASTEROID HAD A BRINY BROTH, THAT BROTH ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe did not get off the ground early Saturday morning as a few glitches halted the countdown, and then time ran out in the 65-minute launch window. p pulse Follow A second ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe passed into the outer atmosphere of the sun and took incredible images of the sun’s corona. Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with Nour Rawafi, astrophysicist and Parker Solar ...

On its closest-ever flyby to the sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured newly released images of solar winds purging out from the sun's outermost atmosphere, the Corona. Scientists are learning more ...

“We are witnessing where space weather threats to Earth begin, with our eyes, not just with models.” With these words, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate spokesperson Nicky Fox conveyed the wonder ...

New research utilizing data from NASA's Parker Solar Probe has provided the first direct evidence of a phenomenon known as the "helicity barrier" in the solar wind. This discovery, published in ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is no stranger to breaking records. On Dec. 24, 2024, Parker made history by flying closer to the sun than any spacecraft in history. The probe reached a distance of just 3.8 ...