Rescue mission launches to save a NASA telescope that's falling back to Earth

A spacecraft rocketed into orbit Friday to rescue a NASA telescope that is in danger of crashing back to Earth.
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Mission to save NASA telescope that's falling to Earth

A three-armed spacecraft has rocketed into orbit to rescue a NASA telescope that's in danger of crashing back to Earth. Northrop Grumman launched Katalyst Space Technologies' Link spacecraft on Friday ...

Observing oscillations, flares and tornados on the sun

For six and a half days in July 2024, the balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise III kept its gaze fixed on the sun. The ...

Good News! Turns Out the Earth Will Never Be Swallowed by the Sun

A new study suggests that when our star becomes unstable in 5 billion years or so, Earth may avoid being engulfed by its ...
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Two earth-facing sunspots blasting powerful X and M flares

Sunspots AR3664 and AR3663 have been erupting with X- and M-class solar flares. Both sunspots are Earth-facing and could ...

Another ‘Super El Niño’ is brewing. Scientists are looking at a controversial solution to squash them

The planet is braced for a Super El Niño which could dramatically increase deadly extreme weather. Scientists are asking ...
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Earth may survive the sun's death after all, new study suggests

When the sun swells into a red giant about 5 billion years from now, Earth may escape being swallowed by the dying star, a ...
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Citizen scientists spot rare exploding star in real-time

Citizen scientists using the Kilonova Seekers platform spotted a stellar flash 2,500 times brighter than before, allowing astronomers to identify the exploding cataclysmic variable GOTO0650 within ...
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The sun's atmosphere is way hotter than its surface. Scientists may finally know why

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has found charged grains of dust being carried on magnetic plasma waves in the Sun's outer ...