NASA's Parker Solar Probe is spending Christmas Eve on a history-making attempt to fly closer to the sun than we have ever been before — a stunning technological feat that scientists liken to ...

The spacecraft flew within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface to "touch the sun" on Christmas ...

NASA's record-breaking Parker Solar Probe will smash its own personal bests for proximity to the sun and fastest speed by a human-made object when it whizzes past our star on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24).

In our place, one intrepid robotic explorer, the Parker Solar Probe, has been performing ... and ideas shaping our world today. On Christmas Eve, December 24, Parker will fly just 6.1 million ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe ... vehicle is expected on Christmas Eve to come within 3.8 million miles of the sun. If it succeeds, the approach will bring the probe seven times closer to the fiery ...

On Christmas Eve, the probe flew through plumes of plasma ... who is a co-investigator for the WISPR instrument onboard Parker Solar Probe, told reporters at the AGU meeting.

NASA has scheduled an early Christmas present for solar researchers on Tuesday, December 24, when the Parker Solar Probe will pass 6.1 million kilometers (3.8 million miles) from the Sun ...

But on Christmas Eve, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flew around the sun. At around 6:53 a.m. EST on Tuesday, the probe flew within 3.8 million miles of our solar system’s beacon—closer than any ...

On Christmas Eve morning, NASA's Parker Solar Probe broke a new record with its closest approach ever to the sun. The NASA spacecraft is believed to have completed the history-making approach to ...