As scientists await detailed data from the flyby, set to arrive on January 1, 2025, the ... of the solar wind. Designed to orbit the sun in highly elliptical loops, Parker uses Venus's gravity ...

NASA's Parker Solar ... surface of Venus. On Christmas Eve, scientists expect the probe to have flown through plumes of plasma still attached to the sun, and hope it observed solar flares ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

Reiff said the recent flyby of Venus not only helped change the Parker Solar Probe's orbit so it could get close to the sun, but it also helped scientists learn more about Venus, including data ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has set an unprecedented milestone, coming 3.8 million miles from the Sun at a speed of 430,000 mph. Launched in 2018, the spacecraft has utilised Venus flybys to perfect ...

The probe is now using a series of gravity assists from Venus that will slow it down ... Given the extreme proximity to the Sun during the flyby, the Parker Solar Probe faces conditions that ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, launched in 2018, will make its final Venus flyby on Nov. 6. This manoeuvre will bring the spacecraft into a new orbit, allowing it to approach within 3.8 million ...

NASA’s Parker ... spacecraft was launched in Aug. 2018 with the mission to help further our understanding of our solar system’s star by taking samples of its atmosphere, according to Nasa. Its ...

The Parker Solar Probe will soon be the closest any human-made object has ever gotten to the sun. The probe, engineered to study the corona -- the outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere, launched ...