Parker Solar Probe
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By Meghan Bartels Published
NASA's record-breaking solar mission silently completed another close pass of the sun yesterday (April 4).

By Sarah Lewin Published
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has completed its first loop around the sun and entered the second of 24 planned orbits.

By Doris Elin Urrutia Published
The Parker Solar Probe is doing well after its first flyby of the sun, and it will soon begin returning groundbreaking data about how our star behaves.

By Sarah Lewin Published
Monday evening (Nov. 19), National Geographic will air a 1-hour special about Parker Solar Probe, the record-breaking mission currently slinging around the sun.

By Mike Wall Published
NASA's Parker Solar Probe phoned home Wednesday (Nov. 7), confirming that it survived its first record-breaking sun flyby in good condition.

By Meghan Bartels Published
One of humanity's newest spacecraft faced a harrowing test late Monday night (Nov. 5), darting just 15 million miles (24 million kilometers) of the surface of our sun.

By Meghan Bartels Published
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has had a big week: on Monday it broke two world records and today it began its first close pass over the sun.

By Mike Wall Published
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe just got closer to the sun than any other human-made object in history.
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