NASA Solar Probe Set For 430,000 MPH White-Knuckle Ride Skimming The Sun The Parker Solar Probe is expected to skim the Sun’s outer atmosphere on Tuesday. NASA’s probe will come within 3.86 million miles of the solar surface, closer than any human-built object ever. It might seem distant, but Mercury is 39.4 million away from the system’s namesake star. The probe will be coming in hot in… Read more…

NASA cancels its VIPER rover that would’ve searched for water on the Moon Image: NASA/Daniel RutterNASA isn’t moving forward with its VIPER program — short for Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover — which aimed to put a rover on the far side of the Moon to search for water. On Wednesday, NASA cited cost increases and several delays as its reasons for canceling the project. VIPER was originally expected to l…

NASA Says No Plan to Use SpaceX to Rescue Boeing Starliner Astronauts In a news conference from aboard the International Space Station, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said they had confidence in the troubled spacecraft to get them home.

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NASA Reveals First Pictures of Osiris-Rex Asteroid Samples Scientists said they got more material than expected from the Osiris-Rex mission during its seven-year journey to the asteroid Bennu.

NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio Returns From Record Space Trip The trip to space was only supposed to last six months for Frank Rubio, but technical difficulties kept his crew in orbit for over a year.

POV: You’re A NASA Probe Skimming The Surface Of The Sun The Parker Space Probe is described by NASA as being “about the size of a small car,” and its only goal is to fly as close to the sun as possible to try to unravel some solar mysteries. What exactly is going on in the ‘solar corona,’ and what do solar flares really do? The space car, launched back in 2018, is… Read more…

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NASA Plus is the latest streaming competitor The new NASA Plus logo. | Image: NASANASA is about to voyage into the streaming-verse. The federal space agency is announcing a new “NASA Plus” streaming service that will bring the on-demand non-sci-fi space content you crave to TVs and mobile devices everywhere. And best of all, NASA says it will be “ad-free, no cost, and family-friendly” (via…