A team of researchers developing an atmospheric probe at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, are taking that approach. The concept could offer future scientists a ...

"The data that will come down from the spacecraft will be fresh information about a place that we, as humanity, have never ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments ...

the Parker Solar Probe will make its closest approach yet to the sun. It will come within just 3.8 million miles (6.1 million km) of the solar surface, flying into the solar atmosphere for the ...

A NASA probe has 'touched the Sun' in a historic moment, capturing the sound of solar flares as they fly out through space.

This mission is likely to be complementary to the VERITAS mission, and possibly DAVINCI+ if the proposed atmospheric probe is added. Meanwhile, DAVINCI+’s mission will be to measure properties ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released an audio-visual representation of solar activity over the last three years, ...

The probe became the first spacecraft to “touch the sun” by successfully flying through the sun’s corona, or upper atmosphere, to sample particles and our star’s magnetic fields in ...

In 2021, the probe became the first mission to fly through the Sun’s corona, or the star’s upper atmosphere. Parker Solar Probe travelled dramatically through a coronal mass ejection (CME), an ...

On Christmas Eve, NASA's Parker Solar Probe achieved the impossible – a closer encounter with the sun than any spacecraft in history. It plunged into the sun's scorching outer atmosphere, the corona, ...