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NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched on August 12, 2018 on a mission to study the sun.

What time is the NASA Parker Solar Probe's closest sun flyby ever on Christmas Eve?

By Tariq Malik published

Set your Parker Solar Probe sun flyby clocks for Dec. 24 at 6:53 a.m. EST (1153 GMT), Space Fans.

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What is the moon phase today? Lunar phases 2024

By Tariq Malik last updated

Reference See what moon phase it is tonight and find out when you can see the rest of the moon phases for 2024.

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Two tall evergreens covered in show and red ornaments stand in a snow field with a smaller ornamented tree to the left, and a snowy forest in the background.

Dreaming of a white Christmas? Snow is likely in these US states according to NOAA climate data

By Meredith Garofalo published

According to climate data from NOAA, you might not have to only dream about having a white Christmas this year in some parts of the United States.

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a brown rocky surface seen from high above

NASA Mars probe spies dusty, retired Insight lander from orbit (photo)

By Victoria Corless published

Photos of the dormant InSight lander captured from Mars orbit are providing researchers new data on how dust accumulates and evolves over time on the Red Planet.

Mars
a trippy blue and gold sphere with a middle section wrapped vertically in grey.

BepiColombo spacecraft flies by Mercury, sees volcanic plain and impact craters

By Kiona N. Smith published

The BepiColombo spacecraft has captured the 1st mid-infrared portrait of Mercury.

Mercury
a person in a white coat, a mask and blue hairnet inspects a large black-and-gold spacecraft inside a white clean room

Double moon mission! SpaceX to launch 2 private lunar landers in January

By Mike Wall published

Firefly Aerospace and Japanese company ispace are putting their moon landers on the same SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which is scheduled to lift off in January.

The moon
a grey, dusty orb in space

The moon may be 100 million years older than we thought

By Charles Q. Choi published

The moon may have received a volcanic facelift, making it more than 100 million years older than rocks collected from its surface might suggest, a new study finds.

The moon
a fiery tendril erupts from the sun and reaches out to space.

Watch the sun unleash 'extremely rare' solar storm in explosive eruption (video)

By Daisy Dobrijevic published

All three eruptions were not Earth-directed.

The Sun
(Main) Earth's neighbor and humanity's number one target for exploration Mars (inset) Map of Mars illustrating the fourteen missions to Mars, key sites, and examples of artifacts contributing to the development of the archaeological record

Human artifacts abandoned on Mars should be cataloged to track our migration beyond Earth

By Victoria Corless published

Just as Homo sapiens once exploded out of Africa to colonize the Earth our influence is spreading in the solar system. New research says we must track the cosmic migration to Mars.

Mars
a pale yellow planet surrounded by white concentric rings

Saturn's rings could be much older than scientists first thought

By Charles Q. Choi published

Saturn's rings might not be younger than the dinosaurs as recently suggested, but nearly as old as the giant planet itself at billions of years in age, a new study says.

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