Nasa`s Parker Solar Probe has become the first spacecraft in history to `touch` the sun, officials said.

The probe flew through the sun`s upper atmosphere, the corona, and took some particle samples. The agency called it a `monumental` moment and a `giant leap for solar science.

Because it`s closer to the sun than any man-made craft has gotten, the Parker Space Probe is able to see things on the sun that other spacecraft were too far away to pick up. Getting so close will help scientists uncover new information about the Earth`s closest star and its effects on the solar system.

The spacecraft was launched in 2018, decades after it was first conceived. It took three years to arrive at the sun and has travelled closer to the G-type main-sequence star than any of its predecessors.