NASA’s Parker Solar Probe once again dived deep into the Sun’s atmosphere, matching its own record for speed and proximity. Racing at 430,000 mph and skimming just 3.8 million miles from the solar surface, the probe gathered rare data from…
Category: 2. Space
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NASA’s Parker Probe Just Flew Through Solar Fire at 430,000 MPH
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Scientists Followed 75 Meteorites and Mapped the Asteroid Belt’s Violent Origins
A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the asteroid belt. By building a global network of sky cameras and combining it with citizen science footage, they’ve tracked…
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NASA Captures Lunar Sunset in Stunning Timelapse of Dust and Light
NASA’s SCALPSS 1.1 camera on the Blue Ghost lander captured a stunning sequence of the lunar sunset while gathering critical data on how spacecraft engines disturb lunar soil. This low-resolution, compressed gif captures a lunar sunset as seen…
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Webb Reveals Milky Way’s Ancient Twin Sparkling From the Cosmic Dawn
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered the Firefly Sparkle galaxy, a young cosmic entity that may resemble the Milky Way in its infancy. This discovery, made possible by Webb’s incredible resolution and gravitational lensing, reveals…
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Sols 4486-4487: Ankle-Breaking Kind of Terrain!
Written by Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, Planetary Geologist at University of New Brunswick
Earth planning date: Wednesday, March 19, 2025
This terrain is a tricky drive, with rocks angled chaotically all around. One of our…
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Former NASA astronauts endorse Isaacman as administrator
WASHINGTON — Nearly 30 former NASA astronauts have signed a letter endorsing Jared Isaacman as the agency’s next administrator, calling on the Senate to consider his nomination as soon as possible.
The letter, sent to the leadership of…
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Shocking Spherules! – NASA Science
Written by Alex Jones, Ph.D. candidate at Imperial College London
Last week the Perseverance Science Team were astonished by a strange rock comprised of hundreds of millimeter-sized spheres… and the team are now working hard to…
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CAS Discovery and Foresight – NASA
Convergent Aeronautics Solutions (CAS) Discovery identifies problems worth solving for the benefit of all.
We formulate “convergent” problems—across multiple disciplines and sectors—and build footholds toward potentially transformative…
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Supercomputers Are Simulating the Universe to Unlock Its Darkest Secrets
Cosmologists are using cutting-edge computational tools to uncover the secrets of dark matter and dark energy, which together make up 95% of the universe. Through the Dark Sky Mining project and the powerful Aurora supercomputer, scientists…
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