The probe was just 3.8 million miles from the surface ... The operations team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) received a tone from the spacecraft just before midnight ...

The agency said the operations team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland received the signal, a beacon tone, from the probe just before midnight on Thursday. The spacecraft ...

The probe accelerated to 430,000 mph, faster than any spacecraft has ever flown, traveling to within 3.8 million miles of the star’s surface.

NASA confirmed the probe's health on December 27, 2024, when a beacon tone signaled its successful navigation through the sun's outer atmosphere. HAPPENING RIGHT NOW: NASA's Parker Solar Probe is ...

The space probe sent a simple yet highly-anticipated beacon tone to Earth just before midnight late Thursday (Dec. 26). Scientists on Earth had been out of contact with the Parker Solar Probe ...

Because the probe is currently very close to the Sun, scientists are not able to communicate with it, but they hope to receive a beacon tone on Dec. 27th to confirm the probe has survived.

NASA's spacecraft has reported back after making a plunge into the sun. The Parker Solar Probe has transmitted a beacon tone, indicating it's operational and in good health, NASA confirmed just after ...