Old NASA science satellite plunges back to Earth

An old NASA science satellite is no more. The U.S. Space Force says the Van Allen Probe A plunged uncontrolled from orbit on Wednesday, reentering over the Pacific west of the Galapagos Islands.
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Earth's 'space battery' that stops the Sun from destroying the planet as we know it

NASA scientists believe they’ve identified a kind of 'space battery' inside Earth’s magnetic shield, the same system that protects our planet from the Sun’s charged particles. So you might well have ...
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NASA astronauts are returning to the moon. Houston’s Johnson Space Center will get them there

Mission Control will be packed with experts, specialists and flight directors around-the-clock as NASA takes on its most ...

Jupiter's moons leave cold 'footprints' in the planet's auroras, James Webb Space Telescope finds

Never-before-seen temperature and ion density measurements reveal that the effect of Jupiter's moons on its aurora are more complicated than scientists thought.

Jupiter's moon Europa captured by Juno spacecraft in close flyby

NASA Juno mission captured amazing new imagery of Jupiter's moon Europa. The spacecraft flew about 219 miles (352 kilometers) over the surface of the moon. Credit: Space.com | imagery credit: Credit : ...
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How does Jupiter react to its Moons? Insights from JWST observations explored

Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show how Jupiter reacts to its moons through auroral footprints, plasma interactions, and rapid electron flows detected in infrared measurements.
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NASA craft that crashed into asteroid also altered orbit of 2nd space rock

NASA's DART mission, which tested a planetary defense strategy, successfully changed the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022. The mission also unexpectedly altered the orbit of Dimorphos's larger ...

NASA demonstrates humanity may be able to stop an Earth-bound asteroid

The pair, millions of miles away, continues to pose no danger to Earth, and scientists say it will remain safely distant for at least the next century. But the experiment has already delivered ...
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Chinese official calls for prioritizing Neptune orbiter mission

Chinese official calls for prioritizing Neptune orbiter mission A senior Chinese space scientist and delegate to the country’s national congress is proposing the prioritization of an unprecedented ...

NASA's DART spacecraft changed a binary asteroid's orbit around the sun, in a first for a human-made object

When NASA crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022, it altered both Dimorphos' orbit around its ...
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Harvard scientist places bet that 'discovery or disclosure' of aliens visiting Earth will happen in the next four years

Avi Loeb, who challenged scientists on the true origin of 3I/ATLAS, reckons alien life form will make contact with us soon ...
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Auroras on Jupiter's giant moon Ganymede look like Earth's northern lights, NASA spacecraft reveals

The ultraviolet auroras were imaged by NASA's Juno probe on a brief flyby. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...