NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe in 2018. It will make history on December 24, 2024, with its closest approach to the Sun. This first-of-its-kind mission aims to study the Sun and ...

Scheduled to launch on Feb. 27, NASA's PUNCH mission could revolutionize space weather forecasts, unify the solar corona and ...

"Right now, Parker Solar Probe has achieved what we designed the mission for," Nicola Fox, the associate administrator for NASA Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington ...

It got closer to the sun than any other human-made object. 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.

While Earthlings were wrapping gifts and preparing holiday buffets this past Christmas Eve, a rocket named for a south ...

On Dec. 26, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe went where no mission has gone before and came within 3.8 million miles (6 million kilometers) of the Sun’s surface, flying through the solar corona ...

Nasa has confirmed that its Parker Solar Probe is “operating normally” after making the closest-ever approach to the Sun by a spacecraft. The pioneering probe made its closest approach to the star on ...

The Parker Solar Probe – named after physicist Eugene Parker who was born in 1927 and made several breakthroughs of our understanding of the solar wind and also explained why the Sun’s corona is ...

The probe will be flying by at 430,000 mph, which NASA said is the equivalent of traveling between Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia in just 1 second.

Parker Solar Probe's 22nd close approach on December 24 The Parker Solar Probe, launched in 2018, is a mission to study the Sun more than it has ever been studied before. Its objectives are to ...

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 ...

Dec. 21 (UPI) --NASA's Parker Solar Probe is operating normally and remains on schedule for a record-setting close encounter with the Sun on Christmas Eve, mission controllers say. All spacecraft ...