NASA's Parker Solar Probe is set to make history by entering the sun's corona, its outer atmosphere. The mission aims to gather unprecedented data on Earth's closest star, a feat never before achieved by a human-made object,

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is expected to make a fiery dive close to the solar surface on the morning of Christmas Eve.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is expected to make history by flying into the sun’s outer atmosphere, called the corona, on a mission to help scientists learn more about Earth’s closest star. “No human-made object has ever passed this close to a star,