The holiday season is a busy time for humankind’s sun-surfing spacecraft. This Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe will be ...

The Parker Solar Probe is expected to pass within an "unprecedented" 3.86 million miles of the solar surface on Dec. 24, ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is set to deliver a valuable Christmas present to solar scientists: a treasure trove of data ...

and it will go toward the sun. The problem is that you don't actually want your spacecraft to fly into the sun or be going so fast that it passes the sun and keeps moving. So you've got to have a ...

This Christmas Eve while Americans were putting the finishing touches on their presents, the Parker Solar Probe was flying towards the sun. NASA’s probe, which launched in 2018, made its closest ...

The spacecraft passed just 6.1 million km from the solar surface on Dec 24, flying into the sun's outer ... has been gradually circling closer towards the sun, using flybys of Venus to ...

The spacecraft will fly within 3.8 million miles of the solar surface. The spacecraft is collecting essential data that can help inform forecasting models on Earth. The fastest human-made object is ...

To avoid the fate of the mythological Greek figure Icarus ... solar eclipse. Flying through this outer layer will allow the probe to collect data needed for understanding the sun’s pulse ...

The spacecraft passed 6.1 million kilometers from the solar surface on Tuesday, flying ... sun operates." The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 and has been gradually circling closer toward ...