China envisions exploring the solar system, and it seems that would happen soon. The country launched Tianwen-2, an innovative space probe tasked with retrieving samples from an uncharted asteroid and ...
"The national security establishment has already been doing this for five decades but thought that no one could replicate it, ...
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 : ...
A planetary scientist who has participated in analog missions describes their value for planning space exploration – and ...
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 ...
NASA is tracking a mysterious, fast-moving object entering our solar system, raising questions about whether it's just a comet — or possibly something more advanced. The object, known as 3I-ATLAS, was ...