A team of scientists compared data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe and ESA’s Solar Orbiter and discovered that magnetic waves known as Alfvén waves, essentially a form of plasma wave, are responsible for pumping energy into the solar wind, causing it to accelerate and heat up as it travels away from the Sun.
A new study published today in Geophysical Research Letters confirms that Venus' upper atmosphere undergoes puzzling changes over the Sun's 11-year activity cycle. The scientists studied data provided by Parker Solar Probe's first direct measurement of…
Just 17 months since launch, and after three orbits around the Sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe – designed, built, and now operated by Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) – brings us amazing sounds of solar wind and hints at origins of this…
NASA's Parker Solar Probe spotted Geminid meteor shower's dust trail from space for the first time ever. As it orbits the Sun 21 more times, the probe will help scientists examine the mysterious structure of the trail. Meteors in yearly showers such as the…
The first scientific papers were published on the NASA Parker Solar Probe mission’s earliest findings in December 2019. The first four papers have suggested a number of "surprising" discoveries, including the speed of the solar wind rotating around…
NASA's Parker Solar Probe surprised scientists with its groundbreaking views of the Sun as the first results from the mission were released on Wednesday, December 4, 2019. Scientists observed bursts of energetic particles never seen before on a small scale, and…
