NASA’s Perseverance Rover captured this image of a strange rock on Aug. 5, 2025. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU) NASA’s Perseverance rover has stumbled across a curious, volcano-shaped rock on the surface of Mars that looks rather like a weathered battle helmet. Captured by the rover’s Mastcam-Z instrument on Aug. 5, 2025, the rock displays a pointed peak and pitted nodular texture …
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has delivered its closest and most detailed view yet of the Sun’s atmosphere, revealing the chaotic origins of the solar wind and space weather events that ripple across the solar system. The findings, based on a historic flyby in December 2024, reported by SciTechDaily, are reshaping scientists’ understanding of how the Sun’s activity can disrupt satellites, …
Read More »NASA’s Webb May Have Found a Planet Next Door. Then It Vanished SciTechDaily New signs found of giant gas planet in ‘Earth’s neighbourhood’ BBC Possible Planet Is Spotted Around Neighboring Alpha Centauri Star The New York Times NASA’s Webb Finds New Evidence for Planet Around Closest Solar Twin NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) (.gov) James Webb Space Telescope spots a potential new exoplanet just …
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Astronomers at the Pan-STARRS Observatory in Hawaii made history in 2017 when they detected ‘Oumuamua, the first interstellar object (ISO) ever observed. Two years later, the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov became the second ISO ever observed. And on July 1st, 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Rio Hurtado detected a third interstellar object in our Solar System, the …
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In a major step forward for one of NASA’s most anticipated space observatories, engineers at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have successfully installed two sunshields on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. “This shield is like an extremely strong sunblock for Roman’s sensitive instruments, protecting them from heat and light from the sun that would otherwise overwhelm …
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Key numbers used Voyager 1 speed ≈ 17 km/s (typical quoted value). 1 astronomical unit (AU) = 149,597,870.7 km. 1 year ≈ 365.25 days and 1 day = 86,400 seconds. Convert Voyager speed to AU per year (digit-by-digit) Seconds per year = 86,400 × 365.25 = 31,557,600 s. Distance per year = 17 km/s × 31,557,600 s = 536,479,200 km/year. …
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Communication depends on Voyager’s 3.7-metre high-gain antenna transmitting narrow, low-power X-band radio signals. Those signals are captured by NASA’s Deep Space Network, three arrays of huge dishes in California, Spain and Australia, which amplify and decode the faint transmissions. The probe transmits slowly and in short bursts, storing data onboard and sending it in low-rate streams that the DSN reconstructs …
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’40 years in deep space’: How NASA’s Voyager-1 survives a 50,000°C firewall on outskirts of our solar system WION ‘50,000°C without fire’: NASA’s Voyager-1 reaches solar system’s firewall 20,000 lakh Km from Earth WION Voyager 1 discovers 50,000°C ‘firewall’ 2 billion km from Earth | To read more about the Voyager 1 mission | Inshorts Inshorts NASA’s Voyager 1 discovers a fiery hot …
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