NASA’s only visit to Uranus happened during a rare cosmic occurrence
This week, revisit what you know about Uranus, explore the far side of the moon, rediscover the famed fossil known as Lucy, ...
How Old Is the Solar System, and How Did It Form?
Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...
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The Radical Plan to Build a Spaceship to Carry Humans For Generations
The dream of traversing the depths of space and planting the seed of human civilization on another planet has existed for generations.
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How Can Jupiter Have No Surface? A Dive Into A Planet So Big, It Could Swallow 1,000 Earths
The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk ...
NASA Tracking Bus-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth at Over 29,000 mph
The asteroid, named 2024 VK3, will pass Earth at a distance of about 273,000 miles, just further than the moon's 238,900-mile ...
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If The Sun's Gravity Is So Strong, How Come All The Planets Are Moving Away From It?
The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on ...
Telescope for NASA's Roman mission complete, delivered to Goddard
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is one giant step closer to unlocking the mysteries of the universe. The mission has ...
NASA’s 38-Year-Old Voyager 2 Data Finally Solves Uranus’s Perplexing Mysteries
NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...
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Voyager 2 Measured a Rare Anomaly When It Flew Past Uranus, Skewing Our Knowledge of the Planet for 40 Years, Study Suggests
The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
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NASA’s decades-old findings of Uranus’ extreme magnetosphere was misleading: Study
In 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained ...
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NASA’s Roman Telescope gets new tech to hunt for alien worlds around distant suns
The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, designed to block starlight, will help scientists detect faint light from exoplanets.
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New solar composition ratios that could reconcile longstanding questions
A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles ...