First Interstellar Parallax Experiment Ever Conducted by NASA’s New Horizons
For the first time, a spacecraft has sent back pictures of the sky from so far away that some stars appear to be in different…
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First Space-Based Measurement of Neutron Lifetime Completed Using NASA Spacecraft
Scientists have found a way of measuring neutron lifetime from space for the first time — a discovery that could teach us more about the…
Top Five Mysteries About the Planet Mercury That BepiColombo Will Solve
Mercury is a desert world which scientists until recently considered quite uninteresting. NASA’s Mariner and MESSENGER missions, however, revealed that there is much more to…
NASA Is Sending Dragonfly on a Revolutionary Mission to Saturn’s Moon Titan – Here’s Why
Titan, with its methane seas and orange smog, is in some ways the most similar world to Earth that we have found. Though it’s merely…
5 Astonishing New Discoveries From NASA’s Parker Solar Probe [Video]
In August 2018, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched to space, soon becoming the closest-ever spacecraft to the Sun. With cutting-edge scientific instruments to measure the…
Meet the Icy World ‘Arrokoth’ From a Billion Miles Beyond Pluto in the Kuiper Belt
In a fitting tribute to the farthest flyby ever conducted by spacecraft, the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 has been officially named Arrokoth, a Native…
Breakthrough Flexible, Cuttable Lithium-Ion Battery Won’t Catch Fire – Unbreakable & Incombustible
The unbreakable battery that already operated under extreme conditions now adds unprecedented safety capabilities. A team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory…
NASA’s Van Allen Probes Made Major Discoveries That Revolutionized Understanding of Near-Earth Environment
After seven years of operations, and upon finally running out of propellant, the second of the twin Van Allen Probes spacecraft will be retired on…
Scientists Believe Pluto May Have a Hidden Subsurface Ocean
Computer simulations provide compelling evidence that an insulating layer of gas hydrates could keep a subsurface ocean from freezing beneath Pluto’s icy exterior, according to…
NASA Publishes First Kuiper Belt Flyby Science Results
NASA’s New Horizons mission team has published the first profile of the farthest world ever explored, a planetary building block and Kuiper Belt object called…
NASA’s Dart Mission to Demonstrate Planetary Defense Technique
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – NASA’s first mission to demonstrate a planetary defense technique – will get one chance to hit its target,…
New Horizons Spacecraft Reveals Amazing Views of Ultima Thule
The mission team called it a “stretch goal” – just before closest approach, precisely pointing the cameras on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft to snap the…
NASA’s Van Allen Probes Begin Final Phase of Exploration
Two tough, resilient, NASA spacecraft have been orbiting Earth for the past six and a half years, flying repeatedly through a hazardous zone of charged…
New Horizons Captures Incredible Image Sequence of Ultima Thule
An evocative new image sequence from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft offers a departing view of the Kuiper Belt object (KBO) nicknamed Ultima Thule – the…
New Movie Shows the Propeller-Like Rotation of Ultima Thule
This movie shows the propeller-like rotation of Ultima Thule in the seven hours between 20:00 UT (3 p.m. ET) on December 31, 2018, and 05:01…
New Ultima Thule Discoveries from New Horizons Spacecraft
Data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, which explored the Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule earlier this week, is yielding scientific discoveries daily. Among the findings…
New Horizons Reaches Most Distant Target in History
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Ultima Thule in the early hours of New Year’s Day, ushering in the era of exploration from the enigmatic…
Kuiper Belt Object Ultima Thule Reveals First Stages of Solar System’s History
Scientists from NASA’s New Horizons mission released the first detailed images of the most distant object ever explored — the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima…