What is NASA's PUNCH Mission? Know Key Details & Objectives
NASA’s PUNCH mission will study the Sun’s corona and solar wind using four small satellites. Launching in 2025, it aims to ...
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 ...
Rare Seven-Planet Alignment To Light Up Sky This Month, How To Watch
A planetary alignment happens when several planets appear in a line from Earth’s point of view. Mercury will join Venus, Mars ...
Solar Orbiter Just Solved a Major Mystery About the Sun
Solar Orbiter has revealed that tiny, hair-like jets in the Sun’s coronal holes are responsible for both fast and slow solar ...
A Decade-Long Particle Survey Could Shake Up Our Understanding of Cosmic Rays
Cosmic rays coming from outside the Solar System bring these particles closer to the Sun, where they experience changes ...
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 to launch PUNCH Sun mission to recreate solar eclipse
Nasa to launch PUNCH Sun mission to recreate solar eclipse - Four suitcase-sized satellites could revolutionise our ...
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Why Auroras Are Suddenly Everywhere All at Once
Auroras have long mystified humanity. Now that we know what they are and why they happen, we can better predict how best to ...
NASA’s Juno Uncovers Io’s 80 Trillion Watt Volcanic Monster That Shatters Records
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has uncovered an immense volcanic hot spot on Jupiter’s moon Io, surpassing any previously recorded ...
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NASA's launching a satellite constellation this month to study the solar wind in 3D
"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...
Scientists spot tiny sun jets driving fast and slow solar wind
In 2023, the European Space Agency reported on Solar Orbiter's discovery of tiny jets near the sun's south pole that could be powering the solar wind. The team behind this research has now used even ...