Close encounters: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will perform 24 orbits around the Sun with the next close solar passes occurring on 22 March and 19 June 2025 (Courtesy: NASA/APL) NASA has confirmed that ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has called home, sending a signal confirming that it survived a historically close encounter with the sun, when it traveled to within 3.8 million miles of the flaring ...

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 ...

But there’s so much we don’t know about it. And we’re going to learn so much more thanks to the Parker Solar Probe. This little spacecraft managed to do something historic this week. It got closer to ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is scheduled for its closest-ever solar flyby on December 24, 2024, passing within 3.8 million miles of the Sun's surface. Traveling at 430,000 mph, the probe will gather ...

On Dec. 24 at 6:40 a.m. Eastern time, the Parker Solar Probe, a NASA spacecraft, will pass within 3.8 million miles of the sun’s surface, more than seven times closer than any previous mission has.

Nasa has confirmed that its Parker Solar Probe is “operating normally” after making the closest-ever approach to the Sun by a spacecraft. The pioneering probe made its closest approach to the star on ...

a rocket named for a south suburban Chicago man was “touching” the sun. Traveling at “a blazing 430,000 miles per hour,” according to NASA, the Parker Solar Probe became the first ...

NASA could make this Christmas Eve one to remember as its pioneering Parker solar probe is poised to make its closest-ever approach to the Sun. The spacecraft is plunging into the star’s outer ...

FILE - This image made available by NASA shows an artist's rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. It's designed to take solar punishment like never before, thanks to its ...

NASA's Parker Solar Space Probe got closer to the sun than any other human-made object. NPR talks to the scientist behind the project, Nour Rawafi. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station.