Within a year, Voyager 1 spacecraft will be 1 light-day from Earth

It takes light a single day to travel 16 billion miles. The Voyager 1 probe will need a little longer, just 49 years.
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Astronomer Explores Possibility of Launching Bad People Into Sun

If, for some reason, we as a society executed villains by firing them into the Sun, this is how an astronomers says we would ...
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This Mind-Blowing Antimatter Rocket Could Take Us to the Stars Within a Lifetime. But How Long Until We Get One?

In 1932, physicists glimpsed antimatter for the first time — a strange mirror image of regular matter with mind-bending ...
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What NASA’s New Horizons Photographed on Pluto

When NASA’s New Horizons probe finally flew past Pluto, the images it sent back completely changed how we see this tiny world ...
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NASA's Next Flagship Space Telescope Survives the Sounds and Shakes of a Simulated Launch

American space agency NASA readies the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope for integration, launch could come as soon as next ...
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NASA probe captures stunning photos of Earth and moon on the way to infamous asteroid Apophis

These images mark an early milestone in the mission, confirming that OSIRIS-APEX is healthy and on course for its 2029 ...

Scientists capture the crackling sounds of what they believe is lightning on Mars

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling ...
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NASA’s Mars Rover Records Lightning on Mars for the First Time But It Sounds Nothing Like Thunder

Scientists have caught Mars's atmosphere crackling with static, uncovering evidence of miniature lightning in its dust storms.
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Listen to the crackle of Martian ‘mini-lightning’

A microphone on NASA’s Perseverance rover recorded the sounds of electrical discharges generated by dusty gusts.
New York Post

NASA’s silent X-59 jet can break sound barrier with almost no noise, take passengers from NYC to London in 3½ hours

NASA’s sleek and quiet supersonic jet — which is built to reach speeds of up to 925 mph without producing a loud sonic boom— soared across the California desert in its first test flight on Tuesday, ...
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NASA's X-59 Supersonic Jet Broke The Sound Barrier On Its First Test Flight

The "quiet" supersonic aircraft developed by NASA and Lockheed Martin has completed its first flight in California. Dubbed the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology Aircraft, or Quesst, it is a sleek ...