NASA’s Artemis I Orion Spacecraft Returns to Kennedy Space Center
After a comprehensive 11-month testing stint in Ohio, the Artemis I Orion crew module, now the Orion ETA, is back at Kennedy ...
Science News13h
Readers react to Betelgeuse’s buddy, the 2024 Nobels and small nuclear reactor waste
Nobel Prizes honored research in biology and AI, including foundational work on artificial neural networks, which enable machine learning and other ...
Smithsonian Magazine13d
11 Dazzling Celestial Events to See in 2025, From a Total Lunar Eclipse to Rare Planetary Alignments
Keep your eyes on the sky this upcoming year for a chance to spot breathtaking meteor showers, a special view of Saturn and a ...
USA Today16d
NASA's Parker Solar Probe whizzes within 3.8 million miles of sun, setting a record
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has survived an up-close encounter with the sun, officially coming closer to the fiery star than any other spacecraft before it. The record-breaking solar approach took ...
Forbes16d
History-Making Spacecraft Has Survived ‘Touching The Sun,’ Says NASA
Parker Solar Probe is observing the sun from a closer vantage point than ever before. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has survived. NASA received a beacon tone from the heavily armored spacecraft as ...
CBC.ca16d
NASA spacecraft successfully completes closest-ever approach to the sun
This image made available by NASA shows an artist's rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the sun. NASA said on Friday that its Parker Solar Probe was 'safe' and operating normally after ...
NASA16d
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes History With Closest Pass to Sun
Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024. Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 ...
The New York Times18d
How They Celebrated the Holidays 250 Miles Above Earth
By Teddy Rosenbluth In June, two NASA astronauts, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, set out for what was expected to be an eight-day trip to the International Space Station. On Wednesday — around ...
Forbes18d
Why NASA’s Sun-Touching Spacecraft Remains Out Of Contact
temperature as the spacecraft approaches the sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe remains out of contact on Christmas Day after its historic achievement on Dec. 24 when it got closer to the sun than ...
CBC.ca19d
NASA probe expected to make history with closest approach to the sun
A NASA spacecraft may have made history, flying closer to the sun than any object sent before. The Parker Solar Probe had been on course to fly around 6.1 million kilometres from the surface ...
The New York Times19d
The Fastest Spacecraft Ever Heads for Its Close-Up With the Sun
NASA/Naval Research Laboratory/Parker Solar Probe The Parker Solar Probe is attempting the closest ever pass of the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. An image from the Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR ...
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NASA spacecraft just plunged into the sun and broke stunning records
An artist's conception of NASA's Parker Solar Probe passing through the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona. Credit: NASA Early on Christmas Eve in 2024, a NASA craft swooped at blazing speed ...