He was one of the scientists who developed the proposal for the Parker Solar Probe in 2008. The data from the probe’s previous flybys confirmed a century-old hypothesis that there’s a dust ...

Almost no one ever writes about the Parker Solar Probe anymore ... physicist Eugene Parker was 91 years old. But in the six years since the probe has been zipping through outer space and flying ...

On Christmas Eve, NASA's Parker Solar ... for the probe, which has also flown through a coronal mass ejection (CME) for the first time and helped to shed new light on a decades-old mystery ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe conducts groundbreaking studies of the Sun, revealing insights into solar winds and space weather ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will perform 24 orbits around the Sun with the next close solar passes occurring on 22 March and 19 ...

On December 24, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will make the closest-ever approach to the sun ... IRA FLATOW: So Parker helped confirm this old theory about a dust free zone around the sun. What about the ...

Just before 7 a.m. on Dec. 24, the Parker Solar Probe passed within just 3.8 million ... a 4.5 billion-year-old ball of hydrogen and helium that’s about halfway through its lifespan.

Scientists are hoping NASA's Parker Solar Probe will get a unique taste of the ... Parker's data confirmed the decades-old hypothesis that a coronal mass ejection acts like a vacuum cleaner ...

This holiday season is not immune to NASA barging in: On Dec. 24, the agency’s Parker Solar Probe will make its closest ... constraints were driving the design and development of this mission.

with ages ranging from 1 to 5 million years old. NEW YORK — A NASA spacecraft aims to fly closer to the sun than any object sent before. The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 to get a ...

for the first time and helped to shed new light on a decades-old mystery surrounding how the corona heats itself. The Parker Solar Probe is expected to make up to four more close flybys of the sun ...