NASA’s Speed Demon: Parker Probe’s Closest Sun Encounter at 394,736 Miles per Hour
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe successfully completed its 20th close approach to the Sun on June 30, 2024. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 20th close…
Parker Solar Probe News
The Parker Solar Probe, named after the solar physicist Eugene Parker, is a NASA spacecraft launched in August 2018 with the mission to study the Sun more closely than any previous spacecraft. Designed to plunge through the Sun’s extreme outer atmosphere, or corona, the probe aims to gather data on the mechanisms that heat the corona and accelerate the solar wind, a stream of charged particles that affects Earth and the entire solar system. By enduring extreme heat and radiation, the Parker Solar Probe utilizes a combination of thermal shielding and innovative cooling systems to survive its close passes to the Sun, coming within 4 million miles of the solar surface. Its observations and measurements provide valuable insights into solar activity and help improve forecasts of space weather events that can impact life on Earth and satellite operations in space.
Solar Sizzler: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Zips by Sun at 394,736 MPH
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe continues its record-setting journey, gearing up for an even closer encounter with the Sun later this year. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe…
Hot Pursuit: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Completes 18th Close Approach to the Sun
Parker Solar Probe’s 18th close approach to the Sun set distance and speed records, marking a key milestone in its ongoing mission. NASA’s Parker Solar…
Zooming Past the Sun: Parker Probe’s Record 394,736 MPH Solar Dive
The Parker Solar Probe made its 17th close approach to the Sun and successfully navigated through a coronal mass ejection. Its mission, continuing until 2025,…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Shatters Records: The Closest & Fastest Sun Flyby Ever
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe broke its own record by approaching within 4.51 million miles of the Sun on September 27, 2023, also achieving a record…
Solar Orbiter Closes in on Sun’s Biggest Secret: Solving a 65-Year-Old Cosmic Mystery
A cosmic alignment and a little bit of spacecraft gymnastics have provided a ground-breaking measurement that is helping solve the 65-year-old cosmic mystery of why…
Eclipsing Theories: Parker Soars Through Powerful Coronal Mass Ejection “Vacuuming Up” Interplanetary Dust
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe recently passed through a powerful CME, offering groundbreaking observations that support a two-decade-old theory about CME interactions with interplanetary dust, pivotal…
Gravity Assist: Venus Flyby Sends Parker Solar Probe Toward Record-Setting Flights Around the Sun
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe used a Venus flyby to prepare for its upcoming record-setting orbits around the Sun, aiming to study the Sun’s mysteries as…
5 Years, 430,000 MPH, and Counting: How NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Is Making History
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, launched five years ago, has made remarkable achievements, including becoming the first spacecraft to “touch the Sun.” It has collected vital…
Precision in Space: Parker Solar Probe’s Course Correction Paves Way for Historic Venus Flyby
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe executed a short maneuver on August 3, 2023, that kept the spacecraft on track to reach the aim point for the…
Voyage to the Sun: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Completes 16th Close Approach
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe accomplished a milestone on June 27, 2023 – its 16th orbit of the Sun. This included a close approach to the Sun…
Parker Solar Probe Finds Magnetic Energy Near Sun’s Surface Enables Solar Wind To Reach Gravity-Defying Speeds
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Identifies Mechanism Driving the Sun’s Fast Wind Parker Solar Probe data has helped researchers understand how the sun’s wind can reach…
Cataclysm in the Cosmos: Princeton Researchers Unmask the Violent Origins of the Geminids Meteor Shower
Princeton researchers used data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe to deduce that a catastrophic event likely created the prolific Geminids meteoroid stream. Unlike most meteor…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Sheds Light on Unusual, Violent Origin of Geminid Meteor Shower
Each winter, the Geminid meteors light up the sky as they race past Earth, producing one of the most intense meteor showers in the night…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Plunges Into Fast Solar Wind and Discovers Its Mysterious Source
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe probe got close enough to sun’s surface to see hidden granular features. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (PSP) has flown close enough…
Massive Solar Eruption Blasts NASA Probe Head-On Before Impacting Earth
A massive eruption of solar material, known as a coronal mass ejection or CME, was detected escaping from the Sun at 11:36 p.m. EDT on…
Eugene Parker – Pioneering Astrophysicist Who Discovered Solar Wind – Dies at 94
Prof. Emeritus Eugene N. Parker, a pioneering astrophysicist whose contributions to solar physics were so enormous that NASA named its Parker Solar Probe mission after…
NASA Mourns Passing of Visionary Heliophysicist Eugene Parker – Namesake of Parker Solar Probe
Dr. Eugene N. Parker, visionary of heliophysics and namesake of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, has passed away. He was 94. As a young professor at…