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 achieved the impossible – a closer encounter with the sun than any spacecraft in history. It plunged into the sun’s scorching outer atmosphere, the corona, flying through a distance of a mere 3.

NASA's fastest spacecraft in space - the Parker Solar Probe made history on Christmas eve by making its closest ever approach to the Sun. The spacecraft flew from a maximum distance of just 61. million kilometres at 5:23 pm IST on December 24, making it the first man-made object to fly this close to the Sun.