The mission’s close-up with the sun is the culmination of a dream that dates to the dawn of the space age, but progress was ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is scheduled to make its closest approach yet to the Sun, approximately 3.8 million miles from the ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is out of contact with mission control after its closest-ever pass of the sun on Tuesday, Dec. 24.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is about to set another historic milestone as it swoops closer to the sun than ever before, ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe achieved its closest Sun approach, enduring extreme heat and gathering vital data on the corona and ...

The probe - launched in 2018 to help scientists better understand the outer layer of the sun - will race past the sun at ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched in 2018 and has completed ... "This close approach is only possible because of the mission's orbital design," a NASA spokesperson told Business Insider via ...

A NASA spacecraft has made history by surviving its closest-ever approach to the Sun during the Parker Solar Probe mission, a project over six years in the making. The spacecraft was out of ...

This design helps keep the probe's interior near room temperature, even while inside the sun's outer atmosphere, which can ...

Probe Design and Future Plans The Parker Solar Probe is engineered to withstand extreme conditions. Its cutting-edge heat shield, made from carbon foam, protects the spacecraft's instruments and ...

NASA's spacecraft sets record for the closest approach to the sun, flying within 3.8 million miles while enduring extreme heat.

Yanping Guo, the design and navigation manager for the ... on solar exploration missions much more complex than the Parker Solar Probe. “I wish I could go back and be a kid and start all over ...