After launching in 2018, the Parker Solar Probe used Venus to gravitationally adjust its orbit and boost it closer to the Sun, ultimately bringing it within a close but manageable distance from ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, launched in 2018, will make its final Venus flyby on Nov. 6. This manoeuvre will bring the spacecraft into a new orbit, allowing it to approach within 3.8 million ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, launched in 2018, will make its final Venus flyby on Nov. 6. This manoeuvre will bring the spacecraft into a new orbit, allowing it to approach within 3.8 million ...

Close encounters: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe ... 1 January confirmed that the spacecraft not only survived but also executed the commands that had been pre-programmed into its flight computers before ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Preps for Record-Breaking Christmas Eve Flyby The Parker Solar Probe will swoop just 6.1 million kilometers above the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. Scientists are ...

This image of Mercury's surface was taken by M-CAM 1 on board the Mercury Transfer Module (part of ... [+] the BepiColombo spacecraft), using an integration time of 40 milliseconds. Taken from ...

“We learned a lot about the solar wind, the magnetospheric environment around Mercury and Venus ... the planet from this flyby, from the closest vantage point any spacecraft has had around ...