Parker Solar Probe Made Its Closest Flyby of the Sun

Parker Solar Probe passed within 3.8 million miles of the sun around 6:53 EST in 2024. The unmanned NASA probe was launched August 12, 2018. Traveling at 430,000 miles per hour, the spacecraft has flown past the sun on previous occasions. The craft is named after Eugene Parker, an astrophysicist who predicted the existence of solar winds.