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Which planet is closest to the sun?
Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.
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NASA's launching a new sun mission this month: 'PUNCH is going to see a total solar eclipse'
Scheduled to launch on Feb. 27, NASA's PUNCH mission could revolutionize space weather forecasts, unify the solar corona and ...
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Where On Earth Does The Sun Rise First?
In the 1990s, Lockheed envisioned an aircraft so massive it needed Airbus and Boeing to build it. Explore the story of the Very Large Plane, the jet that could have ruled the skies. Where does the ...
Massive Coronal Hole on Sun Sends High-Speed Solar Wind Toward Earth
A massive coronal hole on the Sun is sending solar wind toward Earth, increasing aurora visibility in higher latitudes.
Newly detected near-Earth asteroid has astronomers’ full attention
The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.
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Giant hole in the Sun could trigger solar storms in early February
There are two giant holes in the Sun right now which could create impactful space weather for Earth in early February.
NEOWISE, the NASA mission that cataloged objects around Earth for over a decade, has come to an end
(THE CONVERSATION) The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects – some of which could strike the Earth – ended its mission and burned on reentering the ...
Massive 500,000-mile ‘hole’ in the Sun appears and these are the consequences on Earth
The Sun's surface is a highly active region in the Solar System, with fissures opening up regularly that affect us on Earth.
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The Bennu asteroid reveals clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...
Scientists spot tiny sun jets driving fast and slow solar wind
In 2023, the European Space Agency reported on Solar Orbiter's discovery of tiny jets near the sun's south pole that could be powering the solar wind. The team behind this research has now used even ...
Solar Orbiter Just Solved a Major Mystery About the Sun
Solar Orbiter has revealed that tiny, hair-like jets in the Sun’s coronal holes are responsible for both fast and slow solar ...
Lightning strikes link weather on Earth and weather in space
There are trillions of charged particles—protons and electrons, the basic building blocks of matter—whizzing around above ...