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A record-breaking NASA probe circling the sun has found never-before-seen spikes of solar wind and a flipping magnetic field
In energetic particle storms, events on the sun send out floods of the ions and electrons that make…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A NASA probe got slammed by a massive eruption from the sun and caught it all on camera
The Parker Solar Probe flew right through a major coronal mass ejection last September and captured…
Rebecca Cohen
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NASA just smashed the record for fastest human-made object - its $1.5 billion solar probe is flying past the sun at up to 213,200 mph
Both the solar wind and corona are key to understanding solar storms, which can overwhelm electrica…
Dave Mosher
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NASA is flying a $1.5 billion spacecraft into the sun - here's why
NASA will soon launch its Parker Solar Probe on a mission that will take it closer to the sun than …
Nathaniel Lee,Jessica Orwig
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The Geminids meteor shower peaks this weekend. NASA's solar probe just spotted the giant trail of asteroid dust for the first time ever.
"The truly remarkable thing about the Parker Solar Probe mission is that it's also giving us answer…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A NASA probe flew straight through an explosion from the sun, and found a key clue to how solar storms form
Insight into coronal mass ejections provided by a NASA probe could help better predict solar explos…
Marianne Guenot
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Pluto was discovered 90 years ago this week. Controversy about its identity rages on.
When he discovered Pluto, Planet X became real - for a time. But in 2003, a world larger than Pluto…
Holly Secon
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NASA is about to 'touch' a star for the first time - here are the hellish conditions the Parker Solar Probe must survive
The consequence of this orbital dance is that PSP will fall toward the sun faster and faster after …
Dave Mosher
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NASA is gearing up to fly a robot dangerously close to the sun and 'touch' the star
Eugene Parker, a now-89-year-old scientist after whom the probe was named after on May 31, first di…
Dave Mosher
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NASA is on a mission to 'touch the Sun' in milestone moment for space exploration
Nasa describes it as a mission to ""touch the Sun" on its website, aiming to get our "first-ever sa…
Nathan Rennolds
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Watch the sun show off all year with a total eclipse, strong solar storms, and NASA almost landing on the solar surface
A Helio Year: With a total solar eclipse across the US, a NASA spacecraft "landing" on the sun, and…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA just announced it will probe a dead planet's core
"[W]hen NASA says that there have been 12 Discovery missions, consider that 10 of them were selecte…
Dave Mosher
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NASA's getting ready to plunge a spacecraft deeper into the sun than ever before
"Solar Probe Plus is a true mission of exploration; for example, the spacecraft will go close enoug…
Ali Sundermier
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NASA is finally returning to Venus with 2 new spacecraft - one to map the 'inferno-like world' and one to plunge to its surface
By orbiting Venus and plunging to its surface, NASA's new missions could reveal how the planet beca…
Aylin Woodward,Morgan McFall-…
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NASA's $1 billion Juno spacecraft is probing Jupiter's deepest secrets - here are Juno's biggest discoveries so far
Here are some of the most fascinating scientific discoveries made by Juno at Jupiter - and a taste …
Dave Mosher
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Clouds on Uranus smell like farts, astronomers have confirmed - a clue that there was 'a big shakeup' early in the solar system
"If an unfortunate human were ever to descend through Uranus's clouds, they would be met with very …