The first time NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has observed a big magnetic burst in the sun’s corona, this event could fundamentally alter our understanding of solar storms and their impact on Earth.

Within two months of launching, the Parker Solar Probe in October 2018 moved within 26.55 million miles of the sun's surface, breaking the previous mark set by the Helios-2 spaecraft in 1976.

And the Parker Solar Probe also has the distinction of being the first NASA spacecraft named after a living person. At the time of its launch, in August 2018, physicist Eugene Parker was 91 years old.

The Parker Solar Probe's closest approach to the sun will occur on Dec. 24, 2024, during which the spacecraft will swoop to within 3.8 million miles of the solar surface. You may like ...

The Parker Solar Probe has completed another daring solar flyby. NASA announced on Monday that the latest encounter occurred ...

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on 24 December 2024. Breaking its previous record by flying just 3,8-million miles above the surface of the ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has made its final close approach to the sun, reaching 3.86 million miles as it seeks to understand ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole in March, which were released this week.

The craft helped solar boffins to discover that Sol’s north and south magnetic poles are both on the southern side of the star, as seen from Earth. Scientists don’t know why and ESA rates the current ...

Almost no one ever writes about the Parker Solar Probe anymore. Sure, the spacecraft got some attention when it launched. It is, after all, the fastest-moving object that humans have ever built ...