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"No fire damage so far (some wind damage) but it is very close to the lab. Hundreds of JPLers have been evacuated from their ...

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Nasa is developing tiny swimming robots designed to explore the vast underwater oceans beneath the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. The innovative project aims to search for potential signs of ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has successfully made the closest approach to the Sun, the American space agency has confirmed. Earlier this week, the spacecraft passed within a record-breaking 6 ...

A NASA spacecraft made history and is safe after making the closest-ever approach to the sun. On Tuesday, the Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the sizzling solar atmosphere and passed within a ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has survived an up-close encounter with the sun, officially coming closer to the fiery star than any other spacecraft before it. The record-breaking solar approach took ...