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NASA Just Captured the Closest Images of the Sun Ever, from Inside Its Atmosphere
SYFY ’s The Ark follows the crew of an interstellar spacecraft on a multi-light-year journey to the star next door. In the ...
NASA to launch SNIFS, the sun's next trailblazing spectator
July will see the launch of the groundbreaking Solar EruptioN Integral Field Spectrograph mission, or SNIFS. Delivered to ...
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe: New Discoveries That Change How We View the Sun
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is a groundbreaking mission aimed at uncovering the secrets of our Sun. It became the first ...
NASA’s Parker Probe Sends Closest-Ever Images from Inside the Sun’s Corona
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flew just 3.8 million miles from the Sun, capturing the closest-ever images of its corona and solar ...
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Exoplanet is shrinking before the X-ray eyes of NASA's Chandra spacecraft: 'The future for this baby planet doesn’t look great'
"It's almost unfathomable to imagine what is happening to this planet. The planet's atmosphere simply cannot withstand the ...
NASA Tracking Plane-Sized Asteroid Approaching the Earth Today
The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
NASA's Parker solar probe gets dangerously close to the sun and captures stunning solar wind footage
It's not every day we get this close to the heart of our solar system and live to talk about it. But NASA just did something extraordinary. Its Parker Solar Probe has flown closer ...
Blue Origin lines up NASA’s Mars-bound mission for next New Glenn launch
Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin announced its next launch of the New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral will be for a ...
Discovery of 'super-Earth' exoplanet not as 'strange' as some reports claim
According to the paper laying out the research behind the discovery, "TOI-1846b is a super-Earth-sized planet, with a radius ...
Here's how a star beyond Earth's sun could offer a 'picture of the baby solar system'
International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one day resemble our own.
U of I professor leads NASA mission sending satellites to space
NASA is getting ready to launch twin satellites for a study on the sun's energy, and a University of Iowa professor is ...
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UI professor led mission to study sun’s impact on Earth’s magnetic field with satellite launching later this month.
A study led by University of Iowa Associate Professor David Miles will study how the sun impacts the Earth’s magnetic field ...