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The heavily armored Parker Solar Probe has traveled to within just 3.86 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the sun’s surface — what NASA calls “hyper close.” It’s the third and final time it has performed the feat,…

In the latest shutdown, the…

At the heart of the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is the world’s largest digital camera. About the size of a small car, it will create an unparalleled map of the night sky.

The observatory’s first public images of the sky are…

Astronomers have discovered that the largest comet from the Oort Cloud, a shell of icy bodies at the very edge of the solar system, is bursting with chemical activity.

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, the…

Back in 2005, the remains of an animal were found in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, a vast and rugged landscape in southern Utah, USA. They were put into storage at the Natural History Museum of Utah, where they remained for almost…

Firefly Aerospace is preparing for its next mission to the Moon and it hopes to, once again, make…

Loma Linda University Health has launched an inquiry into the work of stroke researcher John H. Zhang after a data sleuth flagged issues with 98 of his papers, The Transmitter has learned.

The papers were published between 2003 and…

NASA satellites looked down on huge cracks forming in sea ice in Canada’s far north.

What is it?

The Amundsen Gulf is named after Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer who, in the early 1900s, embarked on a voyage into the Northwest Passage, a…

For 540 million years, the ebb and flow in the strength of Earth’s magnetic field has correlated with fluctuations in atmospheric oxygen, according to a newly released analysis by NASA scientists. The research suggests that processes deep…

Look to the west on the nights following June 18 to see Mars sweep past the bright star Regulus to enter the Spring Triangle – a formation of three prominent stellar bodies that are visible as spring transitions to summer in the northern…