A Nasa spacecraft has made history by surviving the closest-ever approach to the Sun. Scientists received a signal from the Parker Solar Probe just before midnight on Thursday after it had been ...

Early on Christmas Eve in 2024, a NASA craft swooped at blazing speed through the sun's atmosphere. The Parker Solar Probe, equipped with a robust heat shield, made the closest-ever approach to ...

A seperate NASA mission to study the sun also launched with SPHEREx on the same SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. In the weeks ahead, SPHEREx will begin its two-year mission to scour hundreds of millions of ...

NASA's PUNCH will make global, 3D observations of the inner solar system and the Sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, to learn how its mass and energy become the solar wind, a stream of charged ...

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NASA’s two-for-one launch of its newest space telescope, SPHEREx — designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way — alongside a sun-focused mission called PUNCH is facing ...

NASA and Boom Supersonic just released an incredible photo capturing a shockwave emanating from the dark silhouette of the supersonic XB-1 aircraft while it traveled in front of the sun during a Feb.

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) recently passed within 8 million miles of the Sun, capturing the attention of astronomers. Observed by NASA and ESA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), the comet ...

NASA's new space telescope, the SPHEREx observatory, will map the sky on a two-year course over Earth's poles, while four small satellites in the PUNCH mission will study the sun. Advertisement ...

Beyond NASA, space programs in countries like Russia ... Narrator: Here on Earth, our atmosphere shields us from 77% of the sun's radiation. But astronauts in space don't have that natural shield ...

In a total lunar eclipse, the entire moon moves into the darkest part of Earth’s shadow, called the umbra, completely blocking it from the sun, according to NASA. While the moon will be ...