NASA’s Parker Solar Probe: The Fastest Spacecraft Ever Just Skimmed the Sun at 430,000 MPH
NASA's Parker Solar Probe just screamed past the Sun for the 23rd time, once again matching its own records for closest ...
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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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Three families of planetary objects identified in the outer Solar System
has uncovered the existence of three main groups of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) in the outer Solar System. Thanks to the spectroscopic capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), these ...
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 ...
Esky man brings the planets down to Earth
The Bay Sages heard from the Delta Astronomical Society (DAS) during its monthly meeting on Thursday. DAS Newsletter Editor ...
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How the James Webb Space Telescope is helping size up tiny dwarf planets
"Kuiper Belt objects are icy worlds [that] can tell us what conditions ... key volatile molecules often found in the outer solar system and thought to be remnants from the time when the planets were ...
NASA doubles odds of Moon hitting near-Earth asteroid
"Experts at NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have updated 2024 YR4’s ...
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NASA spacecraft set for second close encounter with the sun—what it hopes to learn
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is set for another close brush with the sun, reaching record speeds of 430,000 mph as it flies ...
Why astronomers are tracking an asteroid that could potentially strike the moon
Astronomers have gotten a glimpse of the "city-killer" asteroid before it disappears until 2028, according to NASA.
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe Team Wins 2024 Collier Trophy
The innovative team of engineers and scientists from NASA, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, and more than 40 other ...