A Nasa spacecraft is in “good health” after going closer to the Sun than anything ever has, the space agency has said. The ...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the Sun than ever before. It traveled at 430,000 mph, making it the fastest ...
its closest-ever approach. The spacecraft flew through more than seven times closer to the sun than ever before and soared through the scorching solar atmosphere at 430,000 miles per hour ...
On Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe was set to become the closest spacecraft to the sun, flying within a few million miles of the solar surface.
The mission’s close-up with the sun is the culmination of a dream that dates to the dawn of the space age, but progress was ...
The Parker Solar Probe zoomed by the sun on Tuesday during a record-breaking flyby, coming within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface during humanity’s closest ...
The mission team knew it wouldn’t receive any communications from the spacecraft during its closest pass of ... ejections released by the sun were directed at our planet. The solar storms ...
When these ejections are aimed at Earth, they can cause geomagnetic storms, or major disturbances of the planet’s magnetic ... to its proximity to the sun. After the closest approach, around ...