Smithsonian Magazine

A NASA Spacecraft Will ‘Touch’ the Sun on Christmas Eve, Flying Closer to the Star Than Any Probe Before

The holiday season is a busy time for humankind’s sun-surfing spacecraft. This Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe will be going where no probe has gone before: a mere 3.8 million miles from the sun ...
The New York Times

The Fastest Spacecraft Ever Heads for Its Close-Up With the Sun

The Parker Solar Probe is attempting the closest ever pass of the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. An image from the Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR instrument of a coronal streamer of the sun, about 16.9 ...
The Verge

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has survived the closest-ever Sun flyby

The Parker Solar Probe signaled to operators that it was still operating normally after traveling within 3.8 million miles of the Sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. The Parker Solar Probe signaled to ...
Wired

A Spacecraft Is About to Fly Into the Sun’s Atmosphere for the First Time

Almost no one ever writes about the Parker Solar Probe anymore. Sure, the spacecraft got some attention when it launched. It is, after all, the fastest-moving object that humans have ever built. At ...
Phys.org

The sun's corona is weirdly hot, and Parker Solar Probe rules out one explanation

The sun's crown-like atmosphere can be 200 times hotter than the sun's surface, despite being farther away from the ultimate source of heat at the sun's core. How the corona's heat seemingly defies ...
Digital Trends

When will we know if NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survived ‘touching’ the sun?

On December 24, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe attempted to “touch” the sun and emerge unscathed. The closest approach ever made by a human-made object to our nearest star saw the spacecraft come within ...
techtimes

NASA Parker Solar Probe Set to Approach ‘The Closest Ever’ to the Sun This Christmas

There will be an upcoming space spectacle come the early morning of Christmas 2024, with NASA's already six-year-old spacecraft, the Parker Solar Probe, set to make another approach to the Sun.
Yahoo

This is how close NASA's Parker Solar Probe will fly by the sun

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Parker Solar Probe will soon be the closest any human-made object has ever gotten to the sun. The probe, engineered to study ...
Gizmodo

NASA Probe’s Daring Flight Through Sun’s Eruption Sheds Light on Solar Storms

The Parker Solar Probe flew through a coronal mass ejection in 2021, finding clues that are helping to unravel the mystery of space weather. Reading time 2 minutes For the past six years, the Parker ...
Digital Journal

Skimming the Sun, probe sheds light on space weather threats

This photo provided by NASA on July 15, 2025, was taken by Parker Solar Probe's WISPR instrument during its record-breaking flyby of the Sun, showing the solar wind ...
Gizmodo

NASA’s Solar Probe Will Make History on Christmas Eve by Zooming Closer to the Sun Than Ever

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 ...