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Johns Hopkins Helping NASA Restore Links to Long-Lost 'Zombie' Satellite

By Jonathan M. PittsContact Reporter The Baltimore Sun

Eugene Parker’s Journey to the Sun

He coined the term “solar wind.” Now a spacecraft will brave its source.

Solar Winds

Eugene Parker’s Journey to the Sun

Parker Solar Probe ready for the Sun

The Parker Solar Probe will explore the surface of the Sun like never before.

NASA Selects Proposals to Study Sun, Space Environment

NASA has selected nine proposals under its Explorers Program that will return transformational science about the Sun and space environment...

Solar Simulation At NASA

The scientists’ solar simulation; constructed using IMAX projectors to recreate the heat and light the probe will experience at the surface of the Sun.

5,200 Days in Space

An exploration of life aboard the International Space Station, and the surprising reasons the mission is still worthwhile

Scientists Discover a New Type of Magnetic Event

By Deborah Byrd in EARTH | SPACE | May 16, 2018

Solar System News

NASA’s Fermi Traces Source of Cosmic Neutrino to Monster Black Hole July 12, 2018
For the first time ever, scientists using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have found the source of a high-energy neutrino from outside our galaxy.
NASA Completes Webb Telescope Review, Commits to Launch in Early 2021 June 27, 2018
The Independent Review Board (IRB) established by NASA to assess progress on its James Webb Space Telescope has unanimously recommended that development on the world’s premier science observatory should continue; NASA has established a new launch date for Webb of March 30, 2021.
Our Solar System’s First Known Interstellar Object Gets Unexpected Speed Boost June 27, 2018
Using observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories, an international team of scientists have confirmed ′Oumuamua (oh-MOO-ah-MOO-ah), the first known interstellar object to travel through our solar system, got an unexpected boost in speed and shift in trajectory as it passed through the inner solar system last year.

Image of the Day

Jamming with the 'Spiders' from Mars July 12, 2018
This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, acquired May 13, 2018 during winter at the South Pole of Mars, shows a carbon dioxide ice cap covering the region and as the sun returns in the spring, "spiders" begin to emerge from the landscape.
'X'-ploring the Eagle Nebula and 'Pillars of Creation' July 12, 2018
The Eagle Nebula, also known as Messier 16, contains the young star cluster NGC 6611. It also the site of the spectacular star-forming region known as the Pillars of Creation, which is located in the southern portion of the Eagle Nebula.
The Heart of Madagascar July 11, 2018
As the International Space Station flew overhead, NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold captured this photograph of a changing landscape in the heart of Madagascar, observing drainage into the sea in the Betsiboka Estuary due to decimation of rainforests and coastal mangroves.