NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Captures Stunning View of Venus
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured stunning views of Venus during its close flyby of the planet in July 2020. Though Parker Solar Probe’s focus is…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured stunning views of Venus during its close flyby of the planet in July 2020. Though Parker Solar Probe’s focus is…
Looking Around the Neighborhood Though they focus on the star at the center of our solar system, some Sun-watching spacecraft recently captured unique views of…
Scientists have combined NASA data and cutting-edge image processing to gain new insight into the solar structures that create the Sun’s flow of high-speed solar…
When scientists downlinked data from Parker Solar Probe’s sixth orbit, there was a small, bright surprise waiting for them: the spacecraft’s first observation of a…
At the heart of understanding our space environment is the knowledge that conditions throughout space — from the Sun to the atmospheres of planets to…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe was at the right place at the right time to capture a unique view of comet NEOWISE on July 5, 2020….
New analysis published April 29, 2020, in the Astrophysical Journal Letters provides a possible explanation for the origin of switchbacks — sudden reversals in the…
NASA mission named for pioneering University of Chicago scientist produces landmark research. Last summer, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe split the predawn skies in a blaze…
New data from the first two orbits by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. Outbursts of energetic particles that hurtle out from the sun and can disrupt…
The Parker Solar Probe spacecraft, which has flown closer to the Sun than any mission before, has found new evidence of the origins of the…
In August 2018, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched to space, soon becoming the closest-ever spacecraft to the Sun. With cutting-edge scientific instruments to measure the…
Parker Solar Probe is alive and well after skimming by the Sun at just 15 million miles from our star’s surface. This is far closer…
Parker Solar Probe now holds the record for closest approach to the Sun by a human-made object. The spacecraft passed the current record of 26.55…
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 –…
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…
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…
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….
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…