As it skirted the corona — or the sun’s outer atmosphere — it careened through space at a record-breaking 430,000 miles per hour, the outlet said. An artist’s rendition of the Parker Solar ...

In December, the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft made the closest controlled approach to the sun of any manmade object.

An artist's conception of NASA's Parker Solar Probe passing through the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona. Credit: NASA Early on Christmas Eve in 2024, a NASA craft swooped at blazing speed ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky ... image shows the Sun in ultraviolet light, revealing the Sun’s upper atmosphere, ... [+] the corona. Just published after ...

The probe - launched in 2018 to help scientists better understand the outer layer of the sun - will race past the sun at ...

A pair of satellites just launched into space that may help scientists solve long–standing mysteries about the Sun's corona and how it ties in to space weather. Solar eclipses are a wonder to ...

The daring NASA spacecraft made its closest-ever approach to the sun at 6:53 a.m. EST (1153 GMT) on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24).

The stockings were all hung by the corona with care ... and you ought to be able to toss any old thing into the sky, and it will go toward the Sun. The problem is that you don't actually want ...

The Parker Solar Probe came within 3.8 million miles of the sun's surface on Christmas Eve, enduring temperatures of up to 982C.

the corona of the sun, the “360-degree sunset” and the “diamond ring.” In South Jersey that day, a maximum of about 87% of the sun was covered and the sky and landscape dimmed a bit ...