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Flying Into the Sun? NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Mission
NASA is planning a mission to get as close as possible as we can to the Sun and reveal its…
What is the Mars Curse?
If you’re going to send a spacecraft to Mars, you’ve got to know that place has an insatiable hunger for…
How Can We Save The Sun?
Bad news, our Sun is living on borrowed time. It’s only got a few billion years left. But there might…
A Dark Region Is Growing Eerily On The Sun’s Surface
Images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have spotted a growing dark region called a coronal hole, which is the cause…
ESA Discovers Where All The Missing Socks Have Been Going
Thanks to the ESA's Cluster mission, scientists now know that part of the plasma found in our magnetosphere is coming…
Huge Plasma Tsunamis Hitting Earth Explains Third Van Allen Belt
A transient third Van Allen belt was first observed in 2013, and new research explains how it was formed.
Thanks, Comet Pluto. Solar System Nomenclature Needs A Major Rethink
Thanks to new data from the New Horizons mission that shows how Pluto behaves as both a planet and a…
New Horizons Did Amazing Work Before Even Arriving At Pluto
New Horizons collected 3 years of data during it's mission to Pluto and beyond, and that data is telling us…
NASA’s MAVEN Orbiter Discovers Solar Wind Stripped Away Mars Atmosphere Causing Radical Transformation
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) orbiter mission has determined that ancient Mars suffered drastic climate change and lost…
The Sun
The Sun has always been the center of the Universe for humanity. However, the nature, composition and lifespan of the…