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NASA's daredevil solar spacecraft survives 2nd close flyby of our sun
"This mission's trailblazing research is rewriting the textbooks on solar science by going to a place no human-made object ...
NASA’s Spacecraft That Touched the Sun Just Won Aerospace’s Biggest Prize
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe team won the 2024 Collier Trophy for boldly venturing into the Sun’s atmosphere. With revolutionary ...
Webb captures Neptune's auroras for first time
Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles away from the ...
NASA’s Next Mission Could Finally Solve the Mystery of Our Solar System’s Edge
The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...
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Scientists Think They’ve Uncovered Mysterious Arms Near the Boundary of the Solar System
As a result, the borders of our Solar System remain a bit of a mystery to scientists ... of their differing distances from the largest gravity well in the vicinity (our Sun)—they have behaved ...
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The solar system was once engulfed by a vast wave of gas and dust
The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...
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Some of Earth’s meteors are probably coming all the way from a neighboring star system
The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the number of interstellar objects entering the solar system will rise.