NASA's Parker Solar Probe has flown into the Sun's corona. Structures known as coronal streamers and the Milky Way can be ...

Its previous near-distance encounters withthe Sun has enabled it to take images of the ... consider the Parker Solar Probe a remarkable engineering accomplishment in space exploration.

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 ...

Parker Solar Probe has spent the last six years setting up for this moment. Launched in 2018, the spacecraft used seven flybys of Venus to gravitationally direct it ever closer to the sun. With the ...

file photo, a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy lifts off from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral, Fla. The Delta IV Heavy rocket will take NASA's Parker Solar Probe to an interplanetary ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has beamed home its first detailed update eight days after making a record-breaking approach to the sun, the agency announced. The spacecraft confirmed its systems and ...

of the sun's surface — the closest yet a spacecraft has ever gotten to our star. "While Parker Solar Probe was closer to the sun than any other human-made object in history, it operated just as ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has set an unprecedented milestone, coming 3.8 million miles from the Sun at a speed of 430,000 mph. Launched in 2018, the spacecraft has utilised Venus flybys to perfect ...

The Parker Solar Probe, partly designed by students and researchers in Colorado, survived its closest encounter with our sun late last week ... for Atmospheric and Space Physics let out a sigh ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Artist’s concept of the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft approaching the sun. Launching in ...

It's a historic milestone that NASA has been building toward ever since the Parker Solar Probe embarked in 2018 on a mission to study the sun's outer atmosphere. While the spacecraft is due to ...

"This heat shield not only needs to protect the spacecraft from the sun but also needs ... the Wide-Field Imager for Parker Solar Probe, or WISPR-- captured images of Venus' scorching-hot surface ...