New York Post26d
NASA probe to make Christmas Eve trip to sun’s surface: ‘Uncharted territory’
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will swoop toward the fiery surface of the sun on Christmas Eve, traveling closer to the massive star than any human-made object has before. Parker is on course to zoom ...
Forbes24d
What NASA’s Historic Sun Mission Today Has To Do With 2024’s Northern Lights And Eclipse
At just 3.86 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) from the sun’s surface, the probe broke records for speed as well as proximity, traveling at a staggering 430,000 mph. Parker achieved its ...
NBC Washington21d
NASA's Parker Solar Probe survives close brush with the sun's scorching surface
Scientists hope the data from Parker will help them better understand why the sun's outer atmosphere is hundreds of times hotter than its surface and what drives the solar wind, the supersonic ...
ABC News29d
This is how close NASA's Parker Solar Probe will fly by the sun
launched in August 2018 and has been gradually orbiting closer to the sun's surface ever since, Nicki Rayl, NASA deputy director of heliophysics, told ABC News. "It'll be inside the upper ...
The New York Times24d
The Fastest Spacecraft Ever Heads for Its Close-Up With the Sun
The Parker Solar Probe is attempting the closest ever pass of the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. An image from the Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR instrument of a coronal streamer of the sun ...