NASA’s Parker probe rings back home

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe could solve the mysteries of the solar wind and test Einstein’s theory of relativity.
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 ...
Over the past six years, Parker Solar Probe has been preparing for this milestone. Since its 2018 launch, the spacecraft completed seven Venus flybys, using the planet's gravity to inch ...