Nandkumar M. Kamat As the year is about to end, here is a short review of important breakthroughs in science that defined the ...

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Nasa's Parker Solar Probe has captured an extraordinary phenomenon, a 'U-turn' of the solar wind, in the Sun's atmosphere, ...

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The first astronauts who walk on Mars are now being told to go as planetary detectives, not just pathfinders. A sweeping new ...

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A NASA spacecraft is making a close approach to the sun, repeating its record-breaking distance of 3.8 million miles from the ...

Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) are helping reshape how scientists study the sun. The ...