Our sun is far from the flawless orb of light we see in the sky. Spacecraft observations have long shown that, up close, the "surface" of our star rumbles with powerful eddies and

The holiday season is a busy time for humankind’s sun-surfing spacecraft. This Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe will be going where no probe has gone before: a mere 3.8 million miles from the sun’s surface.

NASA will make history with the Parker Solar Probe. On the morning of December 24, Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe will become the first man-made object within 3.8 million miles of the sun.