NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came ...
The northern part of the country could see pink and red streaks in the skies this week, just in time for New Year’s Eve, according to ... explosions on the sun’s surface, known as coronal ...
Detailed telemetry data on the spacecraft’s status is expected on January 1, NASA confirmed. The Parker Solar Probe set a new record by flying just 3.8 million miles above the Sun’s surface ...
Icarus has nothing on NASA. The space agency’s Parker ... that may change our understanding of the sun, the agency added, describing the Christmas Eve success as the “first” of more to ...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe achieved a daring approach, flying within 3.8 million miles of the Sun at 430,000 mph. Its groundbreaking mission continues to decode the Sun’s outer mysteries while staying ...
NASA said the spacecraft was safe and operating after its historic flight on Christmas Eve and noted Parker is ... Parker got more than seven times closer to the sun than previous spacecraft ...
NASA Parker Solar Probe spacecraft approaching the sun. Credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins APL / Steve Gribben / Public Domain NASA’s Parker Solar Probe spacecraft has achieved a groundbreaking milestone by ...
On Christmas Eve, NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew 3.8 million miles above the sun's surface at a historic 430,000 miles per hour Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated ...
The Nasa spacecraft ventured close to 3.8 million miles from the Sun's surface on Christmas Eve, December 24. The Parker Solar Probe travelled through the outer atmosphere or corona. The probe aims to ...
Advertisement Scientists were anxiously awaiting the reappearance of the probe after it entered the sun's upper atmosphere on Christmas Eve and then ... said Nicky Fox of NASA's Science Mission ...