"This will be a monumental achievement for all humanity ... On Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe will graze the sun's "surface" — the photosphere, or sun's visible part — at a record ...

On Dec. 26, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe went where no mission has gone ... The mission should soon send all of its collected information back to waiting scientists here on Earth.

On Dec. 24 at 6:53 a.m. EST, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will achieve its closest flyby of the Sun at 3.8 million miles. The mission, part of a seven-year study, aims to uncover the mysteries of ...

The Parker Solar ... The probe won't burn up due to the protective heat shield. "This heat shield not only needs to protect the spacecraft from the sun but also needs to insulate all those ...

NASA sent its Parker Solar Probe just 3.8 million miles from the surface of the Sun — and it survived. The probe transmitted a signal back to Earth on the night of December 26th, “indicating ...

Close encounters: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will perform 24 orbits around the Sun with the next close solar passes occurring on 22 March and 19 June 2025 (Courtesy: NASA/APL) NASA has confirmed that ...

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.

NOW, THE PARKER ... SOLAR WINDS IS SOMETHING YOU’RE LOOKING AT AS WELL. ALSO, SOME PARTICLES THAT CAN DISRUPT. I’VE ALWAYS HEARD ABOUT SOLAR FLARES. ALL OF THIS RESEARCH TIES INTO THIS ONE PROBE.

Nour Rawafi is the project scientist for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission and is with us now. Welcome, Nour. NOUR RAWAFI: Thank you so much. Thank you for having me. LIMBONG: All right. So tell me ...

Artist’s concept of the Parker ... all humanity," Nour Raouafi, an astrophysicist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and project scientist for the Parker Solar Probe ...

Plans call for Parker on Tuesday to hurtle through the sizzling solar atmosphere and pass within ... The AP is solely responsible for all content.

NEW YORK (AP) — NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has successfully made the closest ... NASA received an all-clear message from Parker on Thursday night confirming it survived the journey.