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A NASA spacecraft made history and is safe after making the closest-ever approach to the sun. On Tuesday, the Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the sizzling solar atmosphere and passed within a ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came ...

The transmission allowed NASA engineers ... expose itself to the Sun, causing it to self-destruct. "Parker Solar Probe is braving one of the most extreme environments in space and exceeding ...

When the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow, humanity still needs power. Researchers are designing new technologies, from reinvented batteries to compressed air and spinning wheels, to keep ...

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We are at the dawn of a new space age. If you doubt ... of reasons — chiefly its massive size — which led SpaceX engineers to develop the booster catch method. During the most recent ...