Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Parker Solar Probe is about to make its closest approach to the sun. The spacecraft will fly within 3.8 million miles of ...

Artist’s concept of Parker Solar Probe. On Tuesday, Dec. 24, NASA's Parker Solar Probe got to within just 3.86 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the sun's surface. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe ...

A 4.5-inch-thick carbon-composite shield is keeping Parker Solar Probe’s instruments at room temperature as the spacecraft approaches the sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe remains out of contact on ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has flown into the Sun's corona. Structures known as coronal streamers and the Milky Way can be ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe became the fastest object ever built when it flew through the Sun’s outer atmosphere at more than ...

The holiday season is a busy time for humankind’s sun-surfing spacecraft. This Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe will be going where no probe has gone before: a mere 3.8 million miles from the sun ...

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July will see the launch of the groundbreaking Solar EruptioN Integral Field Spectrograph mission, or SNIFS. Delivered to space via a Black Brant IX sounding rocket, SNIFS will explore the energy and ...

The sun has become increasingly active since 2008, a new NASA study shows. Solar activity is known to fluctuate in cycles of 11 years, but there are longer-term variations that can last decades. Case ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. The fastest human-made object is hurtling toward the sun at this very moment, approaching speeds of ...