NASA said scientists began receiving more detailed telemetry — or "housekeeping data" — from the spacecraft on New Year's Day.
The Parker Solar Probe broke its record by flying closer to the sun than ever before, reaching a distance of just 3.8 million ...
NASA has confirmed that its Parker Solar Probe is safe and fully operational after its Christmas Eve close encounter with the ...
"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 within 6.1 ...
A brilliant fireball lit up the night sky over some southern states in the United States this weekend, but that was no meteor ...
The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 to get a close-up look at the sun. Since then, it has flown straight through the sun's corona: the outer atmosphere visible during a total solar eclipse.
On December 24, NASA's Parker Solar Probe touched the Sun diving through plumes of plasma, and entering the Sun's Corona, its outermost atmosphere.
The next milestone: closest approach to the sun. Plans call for Parker on Tuesday to hurtle through the sizzling solar atmosphere and pass within a record-breaking 3.8 million miles (6 million ...