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Radiation Surge on Mars: NASA Watches Red Planet Light Up During Epic Solar Storm
SciTechDaily· 6 hours agoIn addition to producing stunning auroras, a recent extreme storm provided more detail on how much...
Edward Stone, who guided NASA’s Voyager to distant planets, dies at 88
Washington Post· 9 hours agoEdward C. Stone, who opened a window on the farthest reaches of the solar system while serving as the chief scientist of NASA’s Voyager ...
The Solar System Is Weirder Than You Think
Hackaday· 19 hours agoWhen I was a kid, the solar system was simple. There were nine planets and they all orbited in more-or-less circles around the sun. It’s a great story...
Gateway - Quartz
Quartz· 16 hours agoA new experimental mission by NASA is now flying in orbit, aiming to use photons from the Sun to propel its way to higher altitudes. Update: April 24, 8:33...ET on April 23 ...
After Months of Glitches and Gradual Fixes, Voyager 1 Is Fully Operational Once Again
Smithsonian Magazine· 17 hours ago“The spacecraft has resumed gathering information about interstellar space,” NASA said in a press release. Launched in 1977 and drifting some 15 billion miles away from Earth ...
A massive solar storm hits Mars, revealing a risk for future astronauts on the red planet
CNN.com· 4 days agoCharged particles from a solar storm hit a camera aboard NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover, creating white...
Mars Was Hit With a Solar Storm Days After Earth's Aurora Light Show, NASA Says
Smithsonian Magazine· 18 hours agoDays after solar storms spurred widespread sightings of auroras across Earth in early May, a new bout of eruptions on the sun brought glowing skies to another planet: Mars ...
NASA engineers finally fix Voyager 1 spacecraft — from 15 billion miles away
LiveScience· 18 hours agoNASA's Voyager 1 interstellar probe is finally returning usable data from all four of its science...
NASA Funds Study of Proposals to Investigate Space Weather Systems
The Fairfax County Times· 7 days agoNASA has selected three proposals for concept studies of missions to investigate the complex system...
Ed Stone, who led NASA's iconic Voyager project for 50 years, dies at 88
SPACE.com· 6 days agoEd Stone, who served as the project scientist for NASA's groundbreaking Voyager mission from 1972 to...