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 ...
Over the years, I have featured many articles about our sun, including sunspots, solar flares, cycles and its activity. Last week was a landmark occasion for NASA as a sophisticated solar probe ...
NASA is getting up close and personal with the Sun. On Christmas Eve the Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the Sun than any ...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the sun than any human-made object ever — a stunning technological feat that ...
The spacecraft flew within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface to "touch the sun" on Christmas ...
The Parker Solar Probe is expected to skim the Sun’s outer atmosphere on Tuesday. NASA’s probe will come within 3.86 million ...
To get so close, the Parker Solar Probe had to withstand the sun's extreme heat and radiation like no spacecraft before it.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made its closest approach to the sun early Tuesday, getting within just 4% of the Earth-sun ...
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 ...
The Parker Solar Probe will swoop just 6.1 million kilometers above the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. Scientists are ...
A NASA spacecraft aims to fly closer to the sun than any object sent before. The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 to ...