(CNN) — The Parker Solar Probe zoomed by the sun on Tuesday during a record-breaking flyby, coming within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface during humanity’s closest ...

At 3.8 million miles from the Sun's surface, Parker Solar Probe will be the closest a human-made object's ever been to our host star. Reading time 3 minutes The Sun is getting a surprise visitor for ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is about to make history, once again. On Christmas Eve, the spacecraft is going to get closer to the Sun than any human-made object ever has, traveling at speeds faster than ...

A NASA probe ventured closer to the sun than any spacecraft in history on Christmas Eve — and it whirled by at astounding speeds that also made it the fastest thing ever made by humans. Just before 7 ...

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The uncrewed spacecraft will fly at 430,000 miles per hour (692,000 kilometers per hour), which is fast enough to reach Tokyo from Washington, DC, in under a minute, according to NASA. The speedy ...

(CNN) — The Parker Solar Probe will zoom by the sun on Tuesday during a record-breaking flyby, coming within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface during humanity’s closest ...

At this proximity, the probe would be able to fly through plumes of plasma as well as within a solar eruption if one releases from the sun. The spacecraft was built to withstand the extremes of the ...