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NASA’s Juno spacecraft has unveiled an exciting breakthrough: the discovery of an entirely new type of plasma wave near ...
From one perspective, the Sun is a benevolent orb of plasma and its warmth makes Earth habitable and has kept if habitable ...
Observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field and the unique properties of its plasma ...
The 'helicity barrier' has been directly confirmed, offering new insights into the heating and formation of the solar wind.
On Sept. 26, engineers issued the command to turn off the plasma science instrument. Sent by NASA's Deep Space Network, it took 19 hours to reach Voyager 2, and the return signal took another 19 ...
The plasma experiment had been gathering limited data. NASA expects the Voyager 2 spacecraft will continue operating with other experiments into the 2030s.
New research utilizing data from NASA's Parker Solar Probe has provided the first direct evidence of a phenomenon known as ...
As I noted above, the Voyager 2 mission won’t be shuttered anytime soon. Despite NASA turning off the plasma science instrument, the probe still has four other operational instruments aboard it.
Because of this inevitability, NASA decided it was time to scale back operations on Voyager 2 by shutting down its plasma science instrument. Doing so, however, took much longer than it does to ...
NASA just released some of the most terrifying sounds from deep space, and it's sure to creep you out. ... The playlist includes radar echoes, plasma waves, and even dust smacking into a comet.
Engineers and technicians work on deploying and stowing stationary plasma thrusters on NASA's Psyche spacecraft before its launch in 2023. Two plasma engines are visible here mounted to a dual ...
NASA video shows 2 galaxies forming 'blood-soaked eyes' figure in space The pair of galaxies are named IC 2163 and HGC 2207 and are about 80 million light-years away from Earth. Fernando Cervantes Jr.