Residents in the Huon Gulf District of Papua New Guinea have begun receiving 8,700 solar installations in homes and schools across 18 remote villages as part of a collaboration between the island ...
testing possible future use to clean solar panels, radiators, camera lenses, and astronauts’ spacesuits, boots, and visors of the damaging material. Finally, the U.S./Italian Lunar GNSS Receiver ...
New research is offering unprecedented insights into the icy planetesimals of the early solar system, such as trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. Planetesimals are small, celestial objects ...
Astronomers believe that our solar system may still hold surprises, with ongoing efforts to find a hidden ninth planet, often referred to as Planet Nine or Planet X. If confirmed, this discovery ...
Parker Solar Probe launched in 2018, heading to the centre of our solar system. It had already swept past the Sun 21 times, getting ever nearer, but the Christmas Eve visit was record-breaking.
After years of braving the heat and dust of the inner solar system, taking blasts of solar energy and radiation that no spacecraft has ever seen, Parker Solar Probe continues to thrive." ...
a stream of particles that creates a protective bubble around the solar system. Parker’s data will also help scientists understand how the sun’s outer atmosphere, known as the corona ...
We look ahead to 2025 as the sun ramps up its activity, driven by the peak of the current solar cycle. 2024 was a busy year for solar news, but what can we expect from 2025? In April, a total ...
The spacecraft flew within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface to "touch the sun" on Christmas Eve. NASA's Parker Solar Probe is alive! Two days after a historic ...
On December 24, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe attempted to “touch” the sun and emerge unscathed. The closest approach ever made by a human-made object to our nearest star saw the spacecraft come ...