Parker's journey through the CME is helping to prove a 20-year-old theory about the interaction of CMEs with interplanetary dust, with implications for space weather predictions.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe zoomed past Venus on Aug. 21, using the planet's gravity to aim toward a record-setting series of flights around the Sun that start next month.
On Aug. 12, 2018 – five years ago this week – NASA's Parker Solar Probe blasted off atop a powerful Delta IV rocket.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe executed a short maneuver on Aug. 3, 2023, that kept the spacecraft on track to hit the aim point for the mission's sixth Venus flyby on Monday, Aug. 21, 2023.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe accomplished a milestone on June 27, 2023 – its 16th orbit of the Sun.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission is providing new evidence that a violent, catastrophic event created the Geminids.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe completed its 15th close approach to the Sun on March 17, coming within 5.3 million miles of the scorching solar surface.
An instrument on NASA's Parker Solar Probe was powered off by the spacecraft autonomy system on Feb. 12, 2023.
On Dec. 6, 2022, NASA's Parker Solar Probe began the 14th of 24 planned close approaches to the Sun, eventually coming within 5.3 million miles of the solar surface.