Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024. Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles above the surface of the Sun, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a blazing 430,000 miles per hour
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See the latest updates for the launch of NASA’s Europa Clipper to Jupiter’s icy moon here…
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Images from the JunoCam visible-light camera aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft supports the theory that the icy crust at the north and south poles of Jupiter’s moon Europa is not where it used to be. Another high-resolution picture of the icy moon, by the spacecraft’s Stellar Reference Unit (SRU…
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On Saturday, April 5, Voyager 1 finally “phoned home” and updated its NASA operating team about its health. The interstellar explorer is back in touch after five months of sending back nonsense data…
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NASA’s Juno probe continues to give us more insight into Jupiter and the giant planet’s moons, including Io, the most volcanically active object in the solar system…
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NASA’s Curiosity rover is now exploring a possible ancient river on Mars named Gediz Vallis…
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