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  • NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Observes Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

    Comet 3I/ATLAS appears as a small point of light near the center of the frame against a processed background of stars

    NASA’s Parker Solar Probe observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS from Oct. 18 to Nov. 5, 2025, with its WISPR (Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe) instrument. The spacecraft snapped around 10 images of the comet per day. During this period, Parker Solar Probe was speeding away from the Sun following its 25th solar flyby on Sept. 15.  […]

  • NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Completes 26th Closest Approach to Sun

    NASA's Parker Solar Probe -- with its heat shield facing forward and twin solar panels partially extended -- flies through particles in space.

    NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 26th close approach to the Sun on Dec. 13, again matching its record distance of 3.8 million miles (6.2 million kilometers) from the solar surface. The spacecraft checked in with flight controllers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland — where Parker Solar Probe was […]