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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will swoop toward the fiery surface ... Parker will transmit another beacon tone to mission operators at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Maryland ...

The space agency’s Parker Solar Probe survived the latest endeavor in ... After two days of silence, the agency received a beacon tone confirming the spacecraft was safe late Thursday.

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 ...

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 ...

An illustration of NASA's Parker Solar Probe approaching the sun. Image: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben ...

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.

24. Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles (around 6.1 million kilometers) above the surface of the sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a ...

LIMBONG: You know, as I understand it, there was a period during this mission that scientists were not in contact with the ...