NASA’s Next Mission Could Finally Solve the Mystery of Our Solar System’s Edge
The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...
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SpaceX rocket launches NASA SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar probes (video)
As the agency's SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar mission rode toward ... said Farah Alibay, the lead flight system engineer on SPHEREx at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern ...
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NASA Launches New Space Telescope and Suite of Solar Satellites
Alex Valdez/USSF 30th Space Wing/NASA PUNCH is designed to measure both the corona and the broader cocoon of solar wind swaddling our solar system. The mission consists of four 140-pound ...
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Space Mystery of the Week: Why Does Our Solar System Like Spirals?
Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.
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Hubble Telescope discovers a new '3-body problem' puzzle among Kuiper Belt asteroids (video)
It's a new type of three-body problem for astronomers, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that twin asteroids ...
NASA’s Lucy Mission Gears Up to Meet a 150-Million-Year-Old Space Relic
Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.
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NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimicking the Milky Way's shape: 'The universe seems to like spirals!'
Now, using a powerful NASA supercomputer called "Pleiades," scientists have discovered yet another spiral structure on the edge of our solar system ... told Space.com. (The measurement "au ...
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Mapping the universe and space weather; 2 NASA satellites launch on big science mission
Solar winds can disrupt electronics on Earth. A new satellite will help us study these storms. (Courtesy NASA) SPACE (KXAN) — NASA is creating a map of the universe. On Friday, two satellites ...
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NASA astronauts to return home after major delay. Their extended stay could have health consequences
NASA astronauts Suni Williams ... to stay at the International Space Station for 10 days, but when NASA discovered several helium leaks and propulsion system issues on the spacecraft, the agency ...
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Old NASA mission reveals an unlikely world harbors an ocean
and Io are seen orbiting Jupiter in a Hubble Space Telescope image. Credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA) Callisto, the third largest moon in the entire solar system ...
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NASA showcases progress on Artemis II mission after SpaceX's Starship explosion
A PART OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ARTEMIS TWO SPACE LAUNCH SYSTEM ... SOLAR ARRAYS IN THE FINAL FAIRING OF THE VEHICLE. AND IT WON’T LOOK LIKE THIS AGAIN UNTIL IT’S UP IN SPACE. NASA SAYS ...
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UK agency develops Nasa solar satellite cameras
A "pioneering" Nasa ... wider solar system. It's hoped that by capturing images of the Sun's corona and the solar wind together, scientists will be able to better understand a region of space ...