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 ...

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

Since its launch in 2018, the Parker Solar Probe has helped decode longstanding mysteries about our star, chiefly why its outermost layer, the corona, gets hundreds of times hotter the farther it ...

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.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survives close encounter with sun The probe accelerated to 430,000 mph, faster than any spacecraft has ever flown, traveling to within 3.8 million miles of the star’s ...

On Christmas Eve, December 24, NASA's Parker Solar Probe made history by coming closer to the Sun than any spacecraft ever has, flying within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometres) of the Sun ...

The Parker solar probe in a clean room before its launch in 2018. In 2018, NASA scientists launched the Parker Solar Probe on what they call “a mission to touch the sun.” ...

NASA's record-breaking Parker Solar Probe will smash its own personal bests for proximity to the sun and fastest speed by a human-made object when it whizzes past our star on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24).

The Parker Solar Probe is expected to pass within an "unprecedented" 3.86 million miles of the solar surface on Dec. 24, according to NASA. "It's about to be on its closest approach to the sun ...

On Aug. 12, 2018—five years ago this week—NASA's Parker Solar Probe blasted off atop a powerful Delta IV rocket from what is now Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The predawn launch into the ...