CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Sixty years after NASA set the goal, and three years after its Parker Solar Probe launched, the spacecraft has become the first to "touch the sun." The Parker Solar Probe has ...

NASA spent roughly a billion dollars to send a car‑sized robot into the Sun’s atmosphere, and to get there it had to ...

Images captured by NASA's Parker Solar Probe as the spacecraft made its record-breaking closest approach to the sun in December 2024 have now revealed new details about how solar magnetic fields ...

NASA’s latest close-up of our star is not just a pretty picture. When the Parker Solar Probe swooped to within 3.8 million miles of the Sun on Dec. 24, 2024, it delivered a view of the corona that no ...

Close to the sun, the solar wind, a steady stream of charged particles, accelerates until it cannot turn back. During a record pass about 3.8 million miles above the surface, Parker Solar Probe ...

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Using data collected by NASA's Parker Solar Probe during its closest approach to the sun, a University of Arizona-led ...

How does the solar wind get heated as it leaves the Sun and approaches Earth? This is what a recent study published in ...

It's exactly one year since a human-made spacecraft made the closest approach to the Sun in history. Called the Parker Solar Probe, the piece of technology came within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million ...

"Exploring the Sun's Alfvén Surface in the era of Parker Solar Probe" by Sam Badman, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA). Abstract: The geometry of a star's Alfvén surface determines ...

When taking the measurements for this study, the Parker Solar Probe, pictured here in an artist's impression, traveled at more than 427,000 miles per hour, making it the fastest human-made object in ...