The Parker Solar Probe snapped images of the Sun from a distance of 3.8 million miles (6.1 million km) from the surface at the end of last year.

On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured stunning new images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. These newly released images — taken closer to the Sun ...

By flying closer to the Sun than ever, Parker Solar Probe reveals the chaotic birthplace of solar wind and space storms, ...

The probe is breaking its own record (on 29 October 2018 it became the closest spacecraft to the Sun). The previous record was set in 1976 by Helios 2 when it approached around 26.55 million miles ...

Before the Parker Solar Probe's increasingly close swings, the closest spacecraft to the sun had been the Helios 2 spacecraft, which came about 27 million miles from the sun in 1976.

This is how close the Parker Solar Probe will get to the sun The Parker Solar Probe is expected to pass within an "unprecedented" 3.86 million miles of the solar surface on Dec. 24, according to ...

Within two months of launching, the Parker Solar Probe in October 2018 moved within 26.55 million miles of the sun's surface, breaking the previous mark set by the Helios-2 spaecraft in 1976.

Before the Parker Solar Probe's increasingly close swings, the closest spacecraft to the sun had been the Helios 2 spacecraft, which came about 27 million miles from the sun in 1976.