The probe was just 3.8 million miles from the surface of the Sun as it whipped past at 430,000 miles per hour on December 24. The operations team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) ...

There is good news for Sun botherers: the Parker Solar Probe appears to have survived ... Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) received a tone from the spacecraft just before midnight (EST) on ...

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Though NASA announced the craft made the historic flyby on Christmas Eve, the probe will be in position to send a beacon tone to Earth on Dec. 27, which will confirm its safety. SEE ALSO ...

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 ...

Parker Solar Probe is operating normally after passing just 6.1 million kilometres above the Sun’s surface, NASA says. A 2018 artist's concept shows the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft flying into ...

A NASA probe ventured closer to the sun than any spacecraft in history on Christmas Eve — and it whirled by at astounding speeds that also made it the fastest thing ever made by humans.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched on Aug. 12, 2018, aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket. The Parker Solar Probe's mission is to study the sun in unprecedented detail.

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