From solar probes to deep space missions, these record-breaking human-made objects reached speeds that make bullets and jets ...

It would be another 12 years before the sun was the primary target of a space mission, the twin Helios probes. In the decades that followed, missions like the Solar Dynamics Observatory ...

A little over a year ago, and about 150 million kilometers (93 million miles) from where you’re currently reading this, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe quietly made history by safely flying through ...

The Parker Solar Probe mission is truly the first of its kind, venturing closer to our star than any spacecraft has ever dared, and it’s already broken a number of records. Now, the spacecraft ...

To study this effect across large distances in the heliosphere, researchers used observations of 20 Type III bursts between ~0.9–0.2 MHz from the Parker Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter, STEREO-A and ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe successfully completed its second science-gathering flyby of the sun, the space agency announced on Tuesday (March 25). | Credit: Steve Gribben/NASA/Johns Hopkins APL ...

That means it was extremely close. Closer than any other spacecraft, save the Parker Solar Probe. By getting so close, the Solar Orbiter was able to capture video of “coronal rain,” including ...

On December 24, 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe arrived within 6.1 million km from the star’s surface. This is a short distance to be from the sun: no spacecraft has ever made such a close ...