A coronal mass ejection on another star has been witnessed in its entirety for the first time, revealing that when these ...
I/ATLAS was first spotted by NASA scientists in May this year. Ever since, it has displayed behaviors that are not just ...
A near term laser ablation of micropellets can be made to rapidly accelerate one ton space probes to reach Pluto in one year. The NASA New Horizons launched in 2006 took 9.5 years to reach Pluto and ...
It’s often assumed that Earth is somehow separate from the rest of the universe. Yet changes in environments across the solar ...
A planetary scientist who has participated in analog missions describes their value for planning space exploration – and ...
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"The national security establishment has already been doing this for five decades but thought that no one could replicate it, ...
A pellet of plutonium 238, illuminated by the glow of its own radioactivity. NASA and other space agencies use this material in radioisotope power sources for interplanetary missions to the solar ...
Introduction: NASA's solar system exploration paradigm : the first fifty years and a look at the next fifty / James L. Green and Kristen J. Erickson -- Part I. Overview. Exploring the Solar System : ...
These rare samples, uncovered on the moon by China’s Chang’e 6 mission, might help to reveal secrets of how the solar system ...