LAUREL, Maryland — The Parker Solar Probe zoomed by the sun on Tuesday during a record-breaking flyby, coming within 3.8 million miles of the solar surface during humanity's closest approach to a star ...

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At this proximity, the probe would be able to fly through plumes of plasma as well as within a solar eruption if one releases from the sun. The spacecraft was built to withstand the extremes of the ...

The uncrewed spacecraft flew at 430,000 miles per hour, which is fast enough to reach Tokyo from Washington, D.C., in under a minute, according to NASA. The speedy flyby would make the probe the ...