Tag: NASAs
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NASA’s Sun-Kissing Mission Stuns Yet Again With Incredible New Footage
Earlier this month, a NASA spacecraft captured a never-before-seen display near the Sun. In a blog post published on Friday, the space agency shared a video of a solar explosion having a peculiar effect on its environment. The blast, known as a coronal mass ejection (CME), is a type of event thought to have repercussions…
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A Strange, Old Asteroid Is Orbiting Our Sun — NASA’s New Psyche Mission Will Hunt For Its Origin
If a novel chronicled the Solar System’s history in a thousand or so pages (roughly the length of the Lord of the Rings trilogy), the scene NASA’s Psyche mission is trying to understand happens on page one. Asteroid Psyche preserves the memory of the dramatic event that forged it. This dense, potentially metal-rich object is…