Solar Orbiter ready for close encounter with Venus
The European Space Agency (ESA) is ready to guide the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft through its closest encounter with ...
After flyby of Venus: Solar Orbiter leaves orbital plane of the solar system
Once again, the Solar Orbiter has flown close to Venus. This time, however, the probe was deflected in such a way that it is ...
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Watch A 'Solar Snake' Slither Across The Sun In Orbiter View
ESA's Solar Orbiter captured a "tube of cooler atmospheric gases snaking its way through the Sun’s magnetic field," according ...
Blue Ghost shares spectacular close-ups of the moon as lunar landing attempt approaches
Blue Ghost has captured its first images of the moon from lunar orbit as the spacecraft’s landing attempt on the surface ...
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Space-Based Solar Power: The Future of 24/7 Clean Energy Generation
Imagine a field of solar panels floating silently in the endless day of Earth’s orbit. Unlike their terrestrial cousins, this ...
Massive Solar Storm Unleashes Mysterious New Radiation Belts
A fierce solar storm in May 2024 did more than disrupt GPS — it created two new radiation belts. A revived CubeSat captured ...
Here’s why Mars looks like it’s about to stop, change direction in the night sky
Since Dec. 7, 2024, the red planet has been making its westerly retrograde. But on Monday, that all ends, according to ...
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NASA's 'SPHEREx' infrared space telescope is launching this week. Here's why it's a big deal
NASA's latest space telescope, SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization ...
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China’s Space Solar Power Mission: Can Such Ambitions Usher in a New Era of Renewables?
The solar power station will collect energy from the sun through its components lofted to a geostationary orbit above Earth ...