TOKYO (AP) — Japan's space agency successfully launched Sunday its most powerful flagship H3 rocket, carrying a newly developed unmanned cargo spacecraft for its first mission to deliver supplies to ...

Though Mercury is the closest planet to Earth, it’s one of the hardest to reach. Any spacecraft heading inward must fight the Sun’s immense gravity, requiring multiple planetary flybys and complex ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. This animation shows a conceptual sketch of Mercury's magnetosphere at the time of the MESSENGER flyby. The graphs at ...

WASHINGTON - For the first time, Earth has a regular orbiting eye-in-the-sky spying on the solar system's smallest and strangest planet, Mercury. The NASA spacecraft Messenger successfully veered into ...

ABSTRACT: The extra precession of Mercury—42.9 seconds of arc per century—explained by General Relativity (GR), is the result of a secular addition of 5.02 × 10−7 rad. at the end of every orbit around ...

Vacations are often described as escapes—opportunities to step outside the ordinary, release built-up tension, and immerse in experiences that rejuvenate the body and mind. Yet, while destinations and ...

OEMs must ensure their avionics are electromagnetically clean and do not pollute other sub-systems with unwelcome radiative, conducted, or coupled emissions. Similarly, integrators must ensure their ...

The 33 engines powered up and SpaceX’s massive Starship crept slowly skyward — kicking off its tenth test flight out of Texas. Previous flights did not go as hoped, but this time was different. The ...

Homeowners all over the world want to be able to combine the comfort of being indoors with the latest feeling of being out. Everyone prevents us from receiving wide space, fresh air, and the sound of ...

1 Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States 2 Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States Our methodology demonstrates a proof of concept of the ...

Mercury is one of the least visited planets in our solar system, but NASA’s MESSENGER mission changed that in 2011. It remains the only spacecraft to orbit the planet, capturing thousands of ...