UPDATE 2: The Parker Solar Probe launched as planned at 3:31 a.m. ET on Sunday morning, and NASA celebrated the start of the probe's voyage with video and photos of the successful launch.

Launched in 2018, the Parker Solar Probe is humanity’s first mission to “touch” the sun, flying through its 2.5-million-degree corona hotter than the sun’s surface itself.

In a groundbreaking discovery, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has provided scientists with an unprecedented look at a magnetic explosion within the Sun’s atmosphere. These observations, recorded in ...

In late-December 2024, NASA's Parker Solar Probe got closer to the sun than any spacecraft before ... That means all the spacecraft we launch into orbit tend to do so as well. But by tilting the Solar ...

In late-December 2024, NASA's Parker Solar Probe got closer to the sun than any spacecraft before it. Earlier that same month, the European Space Agency sent a pair of satellites toward the sun to ...

Essentially, the helicity "barrier" alters turbulent dissipation, changing how fluctuations dissipate and how the plasma is heated. The team has now analyzed data from the Parker Solar Probe, and it ...

New research utilizing data from NASA's Parker Solar Probe has provided the first direct evidence of a phenomenon known as ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has directly observed a powerful magnetic explosion in the sun's corona that could help us predict geomagnetic storms on Earth.

NEW YORK — NASA's Parker Solar Probe successfully made the closest approach to the sun, the space agency confirmed Friday. This week, the spacecraft passed within a record-breaking 3.8 million ...

The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter captured the sun from an angle of 17 degrees below the solar equator, enough to directly see the sun’s south pole.

Eugene Parker discovered the solar wind, a stream of particles from the Sun. He correctly predicted the shape of the Sun's magnetic field. NASA's Parker Solar Probe is named after him. This is the ...