NASA Monitors As Bus-Sized Asteroid Approaches Earth Today
The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.
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NASA rockets seed artificial clouds below glowing auroras in Norway (photo)
I assumed it was a very strange kind of cloud." It's not every day you get to watch a rocket launch into a sky glowing with ...
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 TRACERS Mission Hits Major Milestone With Twin Spacecraft Completion
NASA's upcoming TRACERS mission involves two satellites designed to study the interaction between solar wind and Earth’s ...
Mission Space launches next quarter to provide real-time space weather forecasts
The same can't be said of "space weather" from solar events, which can seriously affect satellites and even passenger planes.
Don’t Miss November’s Dazzling Supermoon and Cosmic Spectacle
In November 2024, a supermoon will illuminate the sky, coinciding with various global festivals such as Kartik Purnima, Loy ...
Big Coronal Mass Ejection From Sun's Farside Via SOHO Spacecraft
The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured a coronal mass ejection erupt from the far side of the Sun. Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta ...
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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 ...
Here’s What Trump’s Win Means for NASA
When it comes to space exploration, “I would think that this next [Trump] Administration is going to be a continuation of the ...
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is laying off 325 more workers
NASA's original plan was to bring home the samples collected by the mission in 2040. But its budget ballooned from $7 billion ...
7 captivating images of Uranus captured by NASA
Uranus is unique as it rotates on its side, at roughly a 90-degree angle from the plane of its orbit. The planet takes 84 years to orbit the Sun. An animated GIF showing Uranus' magnetic field. The ...
Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings may have misled us for 40 years.
Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...