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This spacecraft swarm could spot interstellar visitors zipping through our solar system
"We're trying to encounter an astronomical object that streaks through our solar system just once and we don’t want to miss ...
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NASA's daredevil solar spacecraft survives 2nd close flyby of our sun
"This mission's trailblazing research is rewriting the textbooks on solar science by going to a place no human-made object ...
Scientists Observe Carbon Dioxide on Planets Outside the Solar System for the First Time
The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...
As NASA faces cuts, China reveals ambitious plans for planetary exploration
Additionally, China is also investing in a human lunar program, seeking to land its own astronauts on the surface of the Moon ...
It’s Looking More Likely NASA Will Fly the Artemis II Mission
For now, it looks like NASA’s orange behemoth has a little life left in it. All the hardware for the Artemis II mission has ...
NASA’s Spacecraft That Touched the Sun Just Won Aerospace’s Biggest Prize
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe team won the 2024 Collier Trophy for boldly venturing into the Sun’s atmosphere. With revolutionary ...
NASA telescope captures 'Northern Lights' on one Solar System world for the first time
Aurora, commonly known as the Northern Lights in the northern hemisphere, occur when charged particles from the Sun collide ...
NASA’s Powerful Webb Telescope Captures Neptune’s Aurora For The First Time
Much like the northern and southern lights on Earth, auroras occur when charged solar particles collide with a planet’s ...
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Everything Under the Sun
A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...
The 'Blaze Star' hasn't exploded yet, but it could soon
The once-in-a-lifetime explosion of T Coronae Borealis, also known as the "Blaze Star" is still pending -- but the event will ...
Earth 1, asteroids 0: The next generation of planetary defense takes shape at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...
Auroras on Neptune are different from ones on Earth. Here's how
Auroras occur when solar flares interact with the magnetic field of a planet. They have been detected on Jupiter, Saturn, and ...