As mentioned above, the Parker Solar Probe's closest sun flyby will occur on Tuesday, Dec. 24, at 6:53 a.m. EST (1153 GMT).

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Parker Solar Probe is "venturing into a region of space that we never visited before," astrophysicist Nour Rawafi said.

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The probe is expected to pass within 3.86 million miles of the sun on Dec. 24. The Parker Solar Probe will soon be the closest any human-made object has ever gotten to the sun. The probe ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe will come closer than ever before to "touching the sun," getting more than eight times closer than ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, a groundbreaking mission to study the sun’s corona, is set to make an unprecedented close approach ...

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 in ...

“On Christmas Eve of this year, the Parker Solar Probe will be the closest human-made object ever to a star,” Nour Rawafi at Johns Hopkins University said at a meeting of the American ...