The probe will orbit the sun "close enough to pass inside a solar eruption, like a surfer diving under a crashing ocean wave, ...

A little over a year ago, and about 150 million kilometers (93 million miles) from where you’re currently reading this, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe quietly made history by safely flying through ...

NASA is gearing up for its Parker Solar Probe to do a final flyby of Venus on Wednesday on its way to make a record-breaking ...

After a close Venus flyby, Parker Solar Probe is readying for a landmark approach to the sun, gathering critical solar data.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is set to make its final flyby of Venus on Wednesday, setting up the spacecraft to become the closest human-made object to the Sun on Christmas Eve this year.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has just smashed through the record for the fastest object ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has just survived its latest close flyby of the sun. On June 27 the probe got to within just 5.3 million miles of the solar surface while traveling at 364,610 miles per ...

Image: NASA/APL/NRL (left), Magellan Team/JPL/USGS (right) NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will make its seventh and final flyby of Venus tomorrow, capitalizing on our next-door-neighbor’s ...

I think we’re lucky that we launched it in the solar minimum.” NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 15th close approach to the sun (out of a total of 24) on March 17, 2023, coming within ...

On Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will complete its final Venus gravity assist maneuver, passing within 233 miles (376 km) of Venus's surface. The flyby will adjust Parker's ...

Physicist Eugene Parker predicted the solar wind’s existence in 1958. The Mariner spacecraft ... energy source had to exist ...