This shield keeps the instruments behind it cool, at about room temperature, while allowing the probe to safely study the Sun. By flying so close, the Parker Solar Probe is collecting unique data ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe added to the festive cheer by sending home its first detailed telemetry data soon after its ...

NASA's record-setting spacecraft was just 3.8 million miles from the sun's surface—the closest any human-made object has ever ...

NASA has confirmed that its Parker Solar Probe is safe and fully operational after its Christmas Eve close encounter with the ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came within 6.1 ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has sent signal to home after completing its closest-ever sun flyby. The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) mission team in Laurel, Maryland, received the ...

A NASA spacecraft made history and is safe after making the closest-ever approach to the sun. On Tuesday, the Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the sizzling solar atmosphere and passed within a ...

Operations teams have confirmed NASA's mission to "touch" the sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024. Breaking its previous record by flying just 3 ...

On December 24, Parker Solar Probe came within just 3.8 million miles (6.1 million km) of the Sun’s surface, entering the corona, its outer atmosphere. NASA announced on Friday that its Parker ...

But there’s so much we don’t know about it. And we’re going to learn so much more thanks to the Parker Solar Probe. This little spacecraft managed to do something historic this week. It got closer to ...

Icarus has nothing on NASA. The space agency’s Parker Solar Probe survived the latest endeavor in its mission to “touch” the sun – flying just 3.8 million miles above the star’s surface ...

But there's so much we don't know about it. And we're going to learn so much more thanks to the Parker Solar Probe. This little spacecraft managed to do something historic this week. It got closer ...