Parker Solar Probe - NASA Science
Dec 30, 2025 · Parker Solar Probe is designed to swoop within about 4 million miles (6.5 million kilometers) of the Sun's surface to trace the flow of energy, to study the heating of the solar corona, …
Parker Solar Probe - Wikipedia
The Parker Solar Probe is the first spacecraft to fly into the low solar corona. It will assess the structure and dynamics of the Sun's coronal plasma and magnetic field, the energy flow that heats the solar …
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Just Solved a 70-Year Solar Mystery
Aug 23, 2025 · NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is the first spacecraft to fly directly through the Sun’s outer atmosphere, gathering unprecedented data on solar activity and its effects on Earth.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe captures solar wind doing a 'U-turn'
Dec 16, 2025 · NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured solar material looping back to the sun, revealing how it recycles magnetic energy and shapes future solar storms.
Parker Solar Probe takes images close to the Sun as primary mission ...
Jul 13, 2025 · The spacecraft was launched atop a Delta IV Heavy from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 12, 2018. In 2021, Parker Solar Probe became the first spacecraft to “touch” the Sun by flying through its...
Parker Solar Probe
Dec 11, 2025 · Launched on Aug. 12, 2018, Parker Solar Probe will provide new data on solar activity and make critical contributions to our ability to forecast major space-weather events that impact life …
NASA probe flies into the Sun and captures the origins of solar storms
Jul 11, 2025 · In its closest-ever dive into the Sun’s atmosphere, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has returned stunning new images and data that bring scientists closer to solving one of the Sun’s biggest...
Parker Solar Probe captures closest-ever photos of the sun during ...
Jul 11, 2025 · During a record-smashing flight through the sun’s corona in Dec. 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured the closest-ever images of our home star. Now, NASA has finally revealed …
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes History With Closest Pass to Sun
Dec 27, 2024 · Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles above the surface of the Sun, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a blazing 430,000 miles per …
Solving Mysteries of the Sun with the Parker Solar Probe
Dec 26, 2024 · In route to the Sun, the Parker Solar Probe has observed planets and comets, supergiant stars and gamma-ray bursts, and has made discoveries no one was expecting.