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NASA to launch SNIFS, the sun's next trailblazing spectator
July will see the launch of the groundbreaking Solar EruptioN Integral Field Spectrograph mission, or SNIFS. Delivered to ...
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe: New Discoveries That Change How We View the Sun
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is a groundbreaking mission aimed at uncovering the secrets of our Sun. It became the first ...
Colossal Solar Filament Eruption Sculpts 250,000-Mile 'Canyon of Fire' on the Sun’s Surface
Colossal filament eruption on July 15 carved a 250,000-mile solar trench NASA's SDO captured the dramatic collapse of a ...
NASA is launching a rocket from New Mexico: Here’s the mission
NASA will launch a sounding rocket Friday, July 18 from New Mexico near the Texas border. Here's what to know about the mission.
NASA's Parker solar probe gets dangerously close to the sun and captures stunning solar wind footage
It's not every day we get this close to the heart of our solar system and live to talk about it. But NASA just did something extraordinary. Its Parker Solar Probe has flown closer ...
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Exoplanet is shrinking before the X-ray eyes of NASA's Chandra spacecraft: 'The future for this baby planet doesn’t look great'
"It's almost unfathomable to imagine what is happening to this planet. The planet's atmosphere simply cannot withstand the ...
Blue Origin lines up NASA’s Mars-bound mission for next New Glenn launch
Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin announced its next launch of the New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral will be for a ...
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UI professor led mission to study sun’s impact on Earth’s magnetic field with satellite launching later this month.
A study led by University of Iowa Associate Professor David Miles will study how the sun impacts the Earth’s magnetic field ...
U of I professor leads NASA mission sending satellites to space
NASA is getting ready to launch twin satellites for a study on the sun's energy, and a University of Iowa professor is ...
NASA’s TRACERS mission to unlock mysteries of Earth’s magnetic shield
A new NASA mission is set to launch that will study the effects of Earth’s magnetic field on us. NASA and SpaceX are set to ...
Astronomers capture the birth of planets around a baby sun outside our solar system
Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star, an unprecedented ...
Perseid meteor shower to light up August sky with fiery display
The Perseid meteor shower, expected to peak Aug. 12-13, will light up the night sky with up to 100 meteors per hour, offering ...