UPDATE 1: The planned Saturday launch of the Parker Solar Probe has been delayed, with the updated launch now scheduled for 3:31 a.m. ET on Sunday. "The launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta IV ...

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) mission team in Laurel, Maryland, received the spacecraft’s signal just before midnight EST on December 26. Contact was lost during the closest ...

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 ...

named after Dr. Eugene Parker, will unlock many of the mysteries still held by our solar system’s star. The probe launched atop at United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket on Sunday from the ...

It's a two-for-one deal from NASA! Here are the details on their newest "double mission" to analyze our own star, and the millions beyond. 🚀☀✨ ...

This holiday season, while most of us are celebrating on Earth, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will be making history millions of ...

A little over a year ago, and about 150 million kilometers (93 million miles) from where you’re currently reading this, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe quietly made history by safely flying through ...

Read Earth is immersed in material streaming from the Sun. This stream, called the solar wind, is washing over our planet ...

Remember the Parker Solar Probe? NASA’s pioneering spacecraft has completed its first two orbits of the Sun in May, the agency announced. Incredibly, all… ...

In Parker’s first close approach to the Sun, it observed that the solar wind near the Sun was indeed abundant with Alfvén waves. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completes its first trip around the sun ...