Revealing First Light Data from Parker Solar Probe
Just over a month into its mission, Parker Solar Probe has returned first-light data from each of its four instrument suites. These early observations –…
Parker Solar Probe
MIT Astrophysicist John Belcher Discusses the Bold Mission to Touch the Sun
MIT’s John Belcher discusses the launch of the Parker Solar Probe, which will fly directly into the sun’s atmosphere. On Sunday, NASA launched a bold…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Begins Its Landmark Mission to the Sun
Hours before the rise of the very star it will study, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched from Florida Sunday to begin its journey to the…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is Set to Lift Off on August 11
At 3:33 a.m. EDT on August 11, while most of the U.S. is asleep, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida will be abuzz with excitement….
SWEAP Investigation Will Directly Measure Ionized Gas in the Solar Atmosphere
When NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launches into space from the Kennedy Space Center, it will begin its journey to the Sun, our nearest star. The…
Parker Solar Probe Will Face Several-Million-Degree Fahrenheit Temperatures
This summer, humanity embarks on its first mission to touch the Sun: A spacecraft will be launched into the Sun’s outer atmosphere. Facing several-million-degree Fahrenheit…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Prepares to Travel to the Sun
This summer, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will launch to travel closer to the Sun, deeper into the solar atmosphere, than any mission before it. If…
Two New Missions Will Go Closer to Our Sun Than Ever Before
As we develop more and more powerful tools to peer beyond our solar system, we learn more about the seemingly endless sea of faraway stars…