Parker Solar Probe
40 Telescopes Watched the Sun as the Parker Solar Probe Made its Most Recent Flyby
Sometimes in space, even when you’re millions of kilometers from anything, you’re still being watched. Or at least that’s the…
Wow. Parker Solar Probe Took a Picture of the Surface of Venus
The Parker Solar Probe’s mission is to study the Sun. But the spacecraft’s instruments have nabbed some pretty impressive data…
Parker Solar Probe Flies Through the Sun’s Outer Atmosphere for the First Time
For the first time ever, a spacecraft has flown through the Sun’s outer atmosphere. The Parker Solar Probe passed through…
Parker Solar Probe Hurtles Past the Sun, Making its Closest Approach so far
We’ve covered plenty of the Parker Solar Probe’s exploits here at UT, but it keeps breaking new records almost every…
The Parker Solar Probe is getting pelted by hypervelocity dust. Could they damage spacecraft?
There’s a pretty significant disadvantage to going really fast - if you get hit with anything, even if it is…
Here’s the First Image of the Sun from the Parker Solar Probe
It's been 124 days since the Parker Solar Probe was launched, and several weeks since it made the closest approach…
Here are the First Pictures From the Parker Solar Probe. Wait… That’s Not the Sun
The Parker Solar Probe recently collected its first-light data in order to test its instruments, and snapped some beautiful pictures…
The Sun is Actually One of the Most Difficult Places to Reach in the Solar System. Here’s how the Parker Solar Probe Will Do It
The Parker Solar Probe, which will spend the next seven years getting closer to the Sun than any previous mission,…