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Solar System
Shown in a Hubble Space Telescope image, the “astrosphere” around the star L.L. Orionis approximates the heliosphere around our solar system. IMAGE COURTESY ESA/NASA Data from NASA’s Cassini, Voyager…
Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster, which launched on top of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy earlier today, is going farther out into the Solar System than originally planned. The car was supposed to be put on a path …
The best planet , Mercury , is in the midst of telling us something important about our sun: It’s losing mass. Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, has a history of helping us study gravity. Alber…
This image shows the night side of Venus in thermal infrared. Its engine blew up seven years ago, and by all rights the Japanese spacecraft Akatsuki shouldn't have survived. However, engineers at…
We know potatoes can grow on Mars . But can they grow on the Moon? We’re about to find out – sort of. As reported by the Chongqing Morning Post , China is going to include a small ecosystem on its ne…
A new model on how stars are formed has added weight to the hypothesis that most – if not all – stars are born in a litter with at least one sibling. Our own star at the center of the Solar System is…
Instead of using rocket fuel, it may be possible to develop a system that travels through space using light. Space exploration has progressed much over the last few decades, but despite all that, we …
Thanks to the efforts of NASA and its incredibly reliable Cassini spacecraft, we now know more about Saturn and its moons than ever before, but it seems there are still some surprises in store for sc…
We hear a lot about Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, and that’s because we have extremely fancy hardware floating around and, in some cases, cruising on the surface of those planets. The planets that lie f…
Forty years ago, the Voyager 1 and 2 missions began their journey from Earth to become the farthest-reaching missions in history. In the course of their missions, the two probes spent the next two d…
Earlier this month, NASA issued a press release stating that it’s likely that our solar system has a ninth planet” even if it’s proving difficult to find. The planet could have a mass ten times tha…
Alien life may be thriving in a warm, underground ocean on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus, according to new research. Scientists say tidal forces could have kept the subterranean sea liquid for billions…
“These results show ancient Venus may have been a very different place than it is today,” siad Michael Way, a researcher at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. Venus today …
