NASA's Parker Solar Probe Smashes Records

NASA's Parker Solar Probe safe after historic closest-ever approach to sun
NASA's Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the sizzling solar atmosphere and passed within a record-breaking 3.8 million miles of the sun's surface.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has sent signal to home after completing its closest-ever sun flyby
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) mission team in Laurel, Maryland, received the spacecraft’s signal just before midnight EST on December 26. Contact was lost during the closest approach on December 24.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Survives Fiery Sun Flyby at 430,000 MPH
Racing closer to the Sun than ever before, the Parker Solar Probe is unlocking the secrets of our solar system's fiery heart. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has successfully transmitted a beacon signal back to Earth,
NASA Confirms Successful Flyby of Parker Solar Probe, Completes Closest Sun Approach
Parker Solar Probe reaches record 3.8 million miles from the Sun Achieves 430,000 mph, fastest speed for a human-made object Key mission in understanding the Sun's solar wind and particles
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survives close encounter with sun
The probe accelerated to 430,000 mph, faster than any spacecraft has ever flown, traveling to within 3.8 million miles of the star’s surface.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Smashes Records: What We Learned From Its Closest Sun Encounter
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe achieved its closest Sun approach, enduring extreme heat and gathering vital data on the corona and solar winds, advancing our understanding of the Sun’s impact on Earth.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe: What Happens Next After Sun Flyby?
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has once again made history, completing its closest-ever approach to the sun on December 24, ...
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe survives close brush with the sun's scorching surface
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has successfully made the closest approach to the sun, the space agency confirmed Friday. Earlier this week, the spacecraft passed within a record-breaking 3.8 million ...
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Parker Solar Probe: First spacecraft to 'touch' the sun
NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched on Aug. 12, 2018, aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket. The Parker Solar Probe's mission is to study the sun in unprecedented detail.
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Parker Solar Probe survives historic closest-ever flyby of the sun, NASA confirms
Editor's Note: This story was originally published Dec. 24 and updated Friday, Dec. 27 at 10:45 a.m. EST to confirm that the Parker Solar Probe had survived its latest rendezvous with the sun.
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe completes historic Christmas Eve flyby of the sun — but it could take days to know if it survived
NASA's Parker Solar Probe is spending Christmas Eve on a history-making attempt to fly closer to the sun than we have ever been before — a stunning technological feat that scientists liken to ...