NASA Launches New Space Telescope and Suite of Solar Satellites
The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...
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 ...
The 1960s Tech Keeping NASA’s Voyager Probes Alive for Nearly 50 Years
Solar panels are next to useless in the outer solar system, so NASA’s Voyager probes rely on nuclear batteries—technology ...
Total turnaround in astronomy: a never-before-seen structure discovered in the solar system
The Solar System continues to surprise us day after day and its presence in terms of dominance and expansion goes far beyond ...
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Inside radioisotope generators, the ‘nuclear batteries’ that power faraway spacecraft
How do we power missions in the outer reaches of our solar system and beyond? The solution, developed in the '60s, can last ...
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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NASA's next NF-5 is set to search for new worlds
NASA launches NF-5, revolutionizing planetary missions with advanced technology to explore new horizons on the Moon and in ...
Liftoff! NASA’s Twin Missions Launch to Unravel the Big Bang & Solar Storms
SPHEREx, NASA’s latest astrophysics observatory, has launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket alongside PUNCH, a mission studying solar wind. SPHEREx will create a 3D map of the universe, helping to uncover ...
Scientists Discover Four Intriguing Planets Around Closest Single-Star Solar System to Earth
Earth exoplanets orbiting the closest single-star system to us, called Barnard's Star. As detailed in a new paper published ...