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 ...
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NASA has announced an updated plan to continue New Horizons’ mission of exploration of the outer solar system. Beginning in fiscal year 2025, New Horizons will focus on gathering unique heliophysics ...
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 ...
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This Popular Comet Is Nearing the Sun and Will Soon Exit Our Solar System Forever
I/ATLAS was first spotted by NASA scientists in May this year. Ever since, it has displayed behaviors that are not just ...
On May 28, China officially launched its Tianwen-2 mission from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, marking a major step in its growing ambitions in planetary exploration. The mission aims to ...
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 : ...
Humanity's drive to explore has taken us across the solar system, with astronaut boots, various landers and rovers' wheels ...
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