Correctly matching models to reality can help astronomers foresee any disturbances in space weather that could potentially damage technology and harm astronauts
Solar System
Solar System
Space Exploration
Parker Solar Probe Update: Scientists prepare for the probe’s long-awaited launch
With the launch date just around the corner, on 11 August 2018, everyone involved in this mission is making sure that this revolutionary probe is ready for the task at hand
FutureTech
Parker Solar Probe: NASA’s Sun-skimming spacecraft
Things are heating up at NASA as Solar Probe Plus prepares to take a plunge into the Sun
Space Exploration
Parker Solar Probe sensor passes a final test
The closest Sun-like simulation has put a key sensor for the NASA space probe through its paces
Space Exploration
NASA momentarily ceases communication with Mars orbiters and rovers
This month, movements of the planets will put Mars almost directly behind the Sun, from Earth’s perspective, causing curtailed communications between us and the Red Planet
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Space telescopes capture black hole belching a massive flare
The strange behaviour of black holes has become somewhat less mysterious recently, according to NASA’s Swift spacecraft and NuSTAR satellite