Portal Space Systems opens its doors for a sneak preview of solar propulsion system
Bothell, Wash.-based Portal Space Systems shows off the lab where its solar thermal propulsion system will be developed.
JWST captures its first direct images of carbon dioxide outside solar system
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...
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How did Earth get such a strange moon? Exploring the giant impact theory
The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...
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The Solar System Passed Through a Massive Cosmic Wave Millions of Years Ago — And This May Have Cooled Earth
The Radcliffe Wave is a massive, undulating structure filled with dense clouds of gas and dust, stretching across several ...
Four planets found orbiting a star 6 light-years from Earth
Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...
Webb telescope just snapped direct image of worlds many light-years away
It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...
Four small planets discovered around one of the closest stars to Earth—an expert explains what we know
Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...
Webb telescope images of exoplanets "stunned researchers," offer insight into carbon dioxide, NASA says
The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...
NASA’s Next Mission Could Finally Solve the Mystery of Our Solar System’s Edge
The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...
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Teen makes visiting the solar system a walk in the park at Victoria's YYJ
Victoria Airport Authority has unveiled the YYJ Solar System Pathway designed by 17-year-old Evan Papps, an aspiring ...
4.5 billion years: The moon is probably almost as old as the solar system
Researchers are still not sure how old the moon is. However, there is now growing evidence that it is almost as old as our ...