The Parker Solar Probe, partly designed by students and researchers in Colorado, survived its closest encounter with our sun late last week, passing a mere 3.8 million miles from its surface.

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 ...

NASA has confirmed that its Parker Solar Probe is safe and fully operational after its Christmas Eve close encounter with the Sun. On December 24, 2024, the robotic probe came within a record 3.8 ...

Breaking its previous record by flying just 6,115-million kilometres (3,8-million miles) above the surface of the Sun, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a blazing 692 ...

"The data that will come down from the spacecraft will be fresh information about a place that we, as humanity, have never ...

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 ...

Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles (around 6.1 million kilometers) above the surface of the sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a blazing ...

NASA’s pioneering Parker Solar Probe made history on December 24 when it flew closer to the sun than any other spacecraft, with its heat shield exposed to scorching temperatures topping 930 ...

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 ...

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 ...