NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is making its second of three planned close passes through the sun’s outer atmosphere. The spacecraft will reach speeds of 430,000 mph, making it the fastest human-made ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Sixty years after NASA set the goal, and three years after its Parker Solar Probe launched, the spacecraft has become the first to "touch the sun." The Parker Solar Probe has ...
The heavily armored Parker Solar Probe has traveled to within just 3.86 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the sun’s surface — what NASA calls “hyper close.” It’s the third time it has ...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured images of the sun 3.8 million miles away. Images collected by the probe include some of the sun’s outer atmosphere. The images are helping scientists figure out the ...
The spacecraft that now skims through the Sun’s blistering atmosphere is not just surviving, it is turning that hostile frontier into a mapped and measured domain. By repeatedly plunging closer to our ...
This photo provided by NASA on July 15, 2025, was taken by Parker Solar Probe's WISPR instrument during its record-breaking flyby of the Sun, showing the solar wind ...
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NASA Releases Closest Ever Images Of The Sun, Snapped As Probe Travels Through Its Atmosphere
NASA had a special Christmas gift last year. On December 24, the Parker Solar Probe reached the closest it will ever get to the Sun. As it flew just 6.1 million kilometers (3.8 million miles) from its ...
The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish. That’s what scientists have gleaned from the first verified maps of the shifting boundary between the sun and the rest of the solar system. “The ...
Eruptions of plasma piling atop one another, solar wind streaming out in exquisite detail -- the closest-ever images of our Sun are a gold mine for scientists. Captured by the Parker Solar Probe ...
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