While the spacecraft is due to make two more flybys of the sun in 2025, its approach on Tuesday would ... D.C., in one second, according to NASA. At that time, mission operators at the Johns ...

"The data that will come down from the spacecraft will be fresh information about a place that we, as humanity, have never ...

At the time of closest approach ... swung around the sun at about 692,000 kilometers per hour — fast enough to travel from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., in about a second.

In its 22nd close flyby, the probe will skim just 6.1 million kilometers (3.8 million miles) from the surface of the Sun, speeding by at around 192 km per second. NASA has received transmission ...

Related: NASA Seeks Volunteers for Second Mars Simulation Mission ... months after the probe completed its 20th close approach to the sun, coming about 4.51 million miles from the solar ...

A Nasa spacecraft has made history by surviving the closest-ever approach to the Sun. Scientists received a signal from the Parker Solar Probe just before midnight EST on Thursday (05:00 GMT on Friday ...