NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 15th close approach to the sun (out of a total of 24) on March 17, 2023, coming within 5.3 million miles while traveling at 364,619 miles per hour.

The spacecraft signaled to researchers that it had survived the close-up with the sun and was in "good health." NASA scientists on Thursday announced that the Parker Solar Probe had survived ...

related to the intense magnetic field lines which then are seen in the complex glow of plasma in the solar corona once we switch to the EUI view of the Sun. This was a follow-up from previous full ...

“Flying this close to the Sun is a historic moment in humanity’s first mission to a star,” notes Nicky Fox, head of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA headquarters in Washington. “By studying the ...