Huge Star Stretches Planet Into Football-Shaped Object, We Just Found the First One
11 Jan 2022, 10:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Planet WASP-103b, orbiting the WASP-103 star in the Hercules constellation, is shaped like a football due to the star's forces
Fastest Spacecraft Ever Made Did (and Didn’t) Touch the Sun, Here’s Why It’s Complicated
18 Dec 2021, 12:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA announced last week the Parker Solar Probe touched the Sun, three years after it left Earth on a mission to better understand our star
NASA Spacecraft Touches the Sun for the First Time, Lives to Tell the Story
15 Dec 2021, 02:22 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / Recently, NASA's Parker Solar Probe, has reached where no other spacecraft has: the Sun's atmosphere. The probe successfully uncovered incredible mysteries
Spacecraft Hits Speeds That Could Make the Earth-Moon Distance an Under-One-Hour Trip
29 Nov 2021, 23:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Parker Solar Probe hit speeds of 364,660 miles per hour (586,864 kph) during its tenth pass around the Sun, it's a record according to NASA
This Is Our Sun, Glowing Like an Evil Halloween Pumpkin
30 Oct 2021, 07:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / An image of the Sun captured back in 2014 by the Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the Sun in our solar system in a very Halloween-ish mood
Fastest Orbiting Asteroid in Our Solar System Has Uncertain Origins and Explosive Future
9 Oct 2021, 10:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Named 2021 PH27, a recently-dsicovered asteroid moves around the Sun once every 113 days, making it the fastest of its kind that we know of
No More Batteries! Guy Hacks His Cheap Earbuds So They Can Charge Themselves From the Sun
13 Aug 2021, 17:53 UTC · By: Cristina Mircea / Solar power can free you from battery use. This guy modified his earbuds so that he can enjoy them without regularly charging their case.
Solar Orbiter Sees Venus Rising From Really Close, Planet Looks Like an Eclipsed Sun
13 Aug 2021, 15:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The joint American-European Solar Orbiter got within 4,967 miles (7,995 km) of the Venus surface and captured these incredible images
June's Solar Eclipse Made This Amazing Dark Smudge on Our Planet
26 Jul 2021, 10:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The annular eclipse that took place in June was captured on film by a specialized camera located almost one million miles away from Earth
Someone Took Photos of the ISS Transiting the Sun, Astronauts Were Outside
28 Jun 2021, 15:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Amazing photo shows the International Space Station while transiting the Sun as astronauts were outside installing new solar panels
Get Ready to Watch the "Ring of Fire" Solar Eclipse on June 10
6 Jun 2021, 17:35 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / Next week, on Thursday, June 10th, we're witnessing yet another celestial event: an annular solar eclipse or a "rinf of fire" solar eclipse.
Parker Solar Probe Zips Past Venus at Record Speed, Detects a Radio Signal
3 May 2021, 15:14 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / On April 29th, NASA's Parker Solar Probe reached a record speed, but did not miss the chance to collect some information about Venus' ionoshpere.
NASA Interstellar Probe to Fly Further Into Deep Space Than Ever Before
27 Apr 2021, 08:48 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / NASA and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab plan to launch the Interstellar Probe, a spacecraft that aims to reach the heliosphere boundary in 15 years.
When All Other Efforts to Save Earth Fail, Block the Sun
7 Apr 2021, 14:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The National Academies of Sciences published a report saying how it is looking into ways to block the Sun should the need arise
Fastest Spacecraft Ever Passes by Venus, Sends Back Amazing Postcard
6 Mar 2021, 11:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Parker Solar Probe nailed its fourth Venus encounter at the end of last month, team that runs the spacecraft releases amazing shot of the planet
NASA Targeting the Sun Again With Two Tongue-Twisting Missions
30 Dec 2020, 15:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA and a series of partners are ready for two more missions by the end of this decade meant to study the Sun in our solar system
The Sun Sheds Some of Its Secrets in First Ever Parker Solar Probe Reports
5 Dec 2019, 09:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Parker Solar Probe studied the Sun from a distance of 15 million miles, less than half the distance Mercury usually spins around the star
This Is How Solar Wind Flowing by a Spacecraft Looks Like in Space
13 Aug 2019, 12:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA released this week images of the solar wind passing by the Parker Solar Probe, millions of miles away from planet Earth
NASA Looking into 22 GB of Parker Solar Probe Data, Found No Aliens Yet
6 Aug 2019, 10:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / By the end of this month, the Parker Solar Probe would have sent back nearly 50 GB of data from its voyages around the Sun
Fastest Spacecraft in History Completes First Orbit of the Sun
4 Feb 2019, 15:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / During its 24 runs around the Sun, the probe will use four instrument suites to gather data relevant to the understanding of the Sun’s fundamental physics