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In January 2005 a European probe named Huygens fell for two and a half hours through the orange haze of Titan and landed on a plain of ice — the most distant t…

Most probes orbit worlds or fly past them. In January 2005, Europe's Huygens did something far rarer: it landed. Carried ...
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NASA sent a spacecraft toward the sun - then the impossible happened

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe became the fastest object ever built when it flew through the Sun’s outer atmosphere at more than ...
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The sun's atmosphere is way hotter than its surface. Scientists may finally know why

Solar dust could be influencing how the corona shines.
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Today, Earth Reaches Aphelion, Our Most Distant Point From The Sun. So Why Is It So Stupidly Hot?

Earth receives about 7 percent less light during aphelion than during its closest approach to our star, yet the average ...

NASA just found a planet 'hiding' in TESS spacecraft data, all thanks to Einstein

NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS has a new method for detecting worlds beyond the solar system, and it is thanks to ...