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NASA's launching a new sun mission this month: 'PUNCH is going to see a total solar eclipse'
"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...
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How NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission may help us understand the origins of life on Earth
The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...
NASA’s findings from asteroid Bennu suggest solar system could be ‘teeming with the potential for life’
The rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu hold amino acids, ammonia and other molecules essential to life on Earth, NASA reported Wednesday. The findings suggest the conditions necessary for ...
Solar Orbiter Captures Incredible Footage of Tiny Jets Near the Sun’s South Pole
The above 40-second video is sped-up footage of the new-found jets flashing briefly near the Sun’s south pole. In reality, ...
That Huge 2024 Solar Storm Didn’t Just Light Up the Skies—It Reshaped Space Near Earth
A NASA satellite that suddenly reappeared after going silent gets credit for the remarkable discovery—a pair of temporary ...
What Is NASA's Pandora Mission? All About The Telescope That Will Decode Alien Worlds
NASA is preparing to launch its exoplanet telescope Pandora and it got a step closer on Monday. In a statement, the agency announced that it has chosen Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch the telescope that ...
An Asteroid Sample Just Changed What We Know About Life in Our Solar System
The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...
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NASA's Juno spacecraft watches most powerful volcanic event ever seen on Jupiter's moon Io
"This is the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our solar system — so that's really ...
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The odds of alien life just increased, NASA says after discovering DNA ingredients on an asteroid
NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
Jupiter moon of Io is famed for its volcanoes. NASA just spotted the most powerful one yet
NASA officials said what Juno spotted was 'the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our ...
NASA spacecraft flew by distant world. It saw unprecedented volcanism.
On Dec. 27, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped by the volcanic world Io. It witnessed a giant eruption.