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From a Remote Observatory, He’s Defending Our Planet. Get a Glimpse Inside the Life of a Doomsday Asteroid Hunter
David Rankin of the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona spends nights scanning the solar system for potentially catastrophic space ...
In 2026, many people will hear the same strange phrase repeated again and again. The Sun will briefly disappear. It sounds ...
A NOAA GOES satellite's SUVI instrument captured a pair of solar prominences. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NOAA/SUVI ...
Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN)'s backdrop is dominated by the Eagle Nebula — a vast cosmic structure of dust and hydrogen-rich gas ...
NASA's PUNCH mission is photographing the Sun like never before. It can see comets that are invisible to every other ...
Months of careful planning and calculations went into the shot. Then, the team had only one jump attempt to get it right ...
NASA’s PUNCH mission captured detailed images of solar coronal mass ejections, tracking their movement from the Sun’s corona ...
After less than a year in orbit, the Southwest Research Institute-built PUNCH spacecraft have made major accomplishments, ...
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Scientists detect X-ray glow from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS extending 250,000 miles into space
While NASA's James Webb Telescope and other instruments have already spotted abundant water vapor, carbon monoxide and carbon ...
Humanity has sent into space everything from lightsabers and Tesla Roadsters to golden records and entire digital genetic ...
For thirty years, SOHO has delivered an unprecedented, nearly unbroken view of the Sun, surviving multiple near-catastrophic failures and becoming a cornerstone of modern solar science. Its long-term ...
The Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has made valuable ...
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