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It’s finally time to watch one of the best meteor showers of the year: the brilliant display known as the Perseids.
Our sun is about five times less magnetically active than other sunlike stars—effectively a special case. The reason for this ...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has ventured closer to the Sun than any spacecraft in history, plunging deep into its atmosphere ...
This telescope has revealed the whipped-up dust from the birth of a star—and a shining background galaxy—more clearly than ...
The annual Perseids Meteor Shower will peak Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning. However, the Waning Gibbous moon will ...
Usually, a solar storm means that auroras will light up the sky. But more powerful storms, such as this ancient one, could ...
Hubble’s latest portrait of the Tarantula Nebula reveals a turbulent star-making region far beyond the Milky Way. Located 160 ...
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Imagine looking up on a dark winter night to see rippling ribbons of green and purple light dancing across the sky. The ...
Four astronauts from NASA's Crew-10 mission returned on Saturday (August 9) to Earth and were helped out of SpaceX's Dragon ...
Essentially, the helicity "barrier" alters turbulent dissipation, changing how fluctuations dissipate and how the plasma is heated. The team has now analyzed data from the Parker Solar Probe, and it ...
One of NASA's most traveled astronauts in the agency's first decade, Lovell flew four times: Gemini 7, Gemini 12, Apollo 8 ...