WATCH: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe blasts off for 7-year mission around the sun
NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched at 3:31 a.m. ET on Sunday. Watch live here.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will ‘shake’ hands with sun, thanks to small push from Venus
With the Parker Solar Probe, NASA must strike the perfect balance between flying close enough to collect data but not so close that it burns up. Here’s what the mission will take.
More delay, cost for NASA’s next-generation space telescope
NASA announced Wednesday that the James Webb Space Telescope will now fly no earlier than 2021.
Why a U.S. ‘Space Force’ is ‘premature’ but ‘inevitable’
What would a space force look like? Why now? Will NASA play a role? Three experts, including a retired Air Force Lieutenant General, explain the rationale behind President Trump's announcement.
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Over the last 25 years, melting Antarctic ice has added nearly 3 trillion tons of water to the ocean, enough to fill Lake Erie six times over.
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InSight could become the first probe to dig deep into Mars' interior to explore how the Red Planet’s geology evolved over billions of years, including the planet’s so-called “marsquakes.”…
