The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft achieved a monumental milestone on January 8, 2025, with its sixth and final flyby of Mercury. This maneuver brought the spacecraft to just 185 ...

Unfortunate timing The first panel of this artist's concept depicts how Uranus's magnetosphere – its protective bubble – was behaving before the 1986 flyby of NASA's Voyager 2. The second panel shows ...

Parker Solar Probe reaches record 3.8 million miles from the Sun Achieves 430,000 mph, fastest speed for a human-made object Key mission in understanding the Sun's solar wind and particles ...

These close passes allow the PSP to conduct science operations that will expand our knowledge of the origin and evolution of solar wind. Every flyby the probe made with Venus in the past six years ...

Parker endured temperatures of up to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit during its solar flyby, relying on a carbon foam shield that can withstand blazing temperatures of up to 2,600 degrees Fahrenheit in t ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe achieved a daring approach, flying within 3.8 million miles of the Sun at 430,000 mph. Its groundbreaking mission continues to decode the Sun’s outer mysteries while staying ...

Photos and videos originating on Chinese social media platforms and reposted to X show large triangular aircraft, the sixth-generation fighter jets, making sweeping slow turns at a very low ...

Images of advanced aircraft cruising at low altitudes in China on Thursday have surprised analysts, who say they could mark the maiden flights of sixth-generation fighter jets, representing a ...

Chinese media report the test flights took place around 4 p.m. Thursday at the Huangtianba Airbase near Chengdu, home to Chengdu Aircraft Corporation - a subsidiary of a state-owned conglomerate ...

Parker Solar Probe made the closest-ever sun approach at 3.8 million mile Scientists await its health update after Christmas Eve flyby Data from the flyby is expected to arrive by late January ...

The close flyby is supposed to help scientists get a better understanding of solar wind, the Sun’s heat, and how “energetic particles are accelerated to near light speed.” The Parker Solar ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is alive! Two days after a historic Christmas Eve sun flyby that flew closer to the star than any spacecraft in history — taking the car-sized spacecraft nearly a tenth ...