The probe is named after the late Eugene N. Parker, a pioneer in solar physics who predicted the existence of the solar wind.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the Sun than ever before. It traveled at 430,000 mph, making it the fastest ...

Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024.

The Parker Solar Probe, traveling at 430,000 mph, reaches 3.8 million miles from the Sun. Scientists now wait for a signal ...

It’s ready to go through the flight path (ph). But the following days, including the closest approach, we had absolutely no idea how Parker Solar Probe was doing. We had to wait until Friday, until ...

On August 12, 2018, NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe, a spacecraft designed to study the Sun and its environment. Since ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has beamed home its first detailed update eight days after making a record-breaking approach to the sun, the agency announced. The spacecraft confirmed its systems and ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe raced past the sun at a distance of six kilometers. It seems to have returned safely during the ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has made history by flying closer to the Sun than any spacecraft before it. On December 24, 2024, ...

No human-made object has ever passed this close to a star, so Parker will truly be returning data from uncharted territory.” ...

The Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed a historic close encounter with the sun, passing through its blazing corona in mankind's nearest approach to the star, NASA announced Friday.