While many dream of bases on Mars and cities above Venus, the reality of colonizing the Solar System is far more difficult and may be impossible with today’s technology. NATO scrambles fighter jets as ...

A team led by Prof. Yin Huajie from the Hefei Institute of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a solar-powered system that produces green hydrogen directly from ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. C.2 Solar System Science solicits proposals for research, data analysis, data preservation, and tools that support ...

On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...

Researchers note that Bennu has preserved clues about the solar system's very earliest days. Stardust Older Than the Sun According to a trio of recently published papers, scientists analysed Bennu's ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. In archival footage of a historic NASA news conference, the mission reveals history-making images of six planets in ...

A long-dormant coal mine waste site in Pennsylvania has new life, providing solar power to the local community thanks to a groundbreaking tracking system enabling installation across challenging ...

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Smithsonian researchers analyzed fragments of the near-Earth asteroid and discovered water-rich clays that hint at a distant origin Jack Tamisiea A view of the outside of the OSIRIS-REx sample ...

A violent past The first of the three papers, published Aug. 22 in the journal Nature Astronomy, suggests Bennu's ancestor broke apart in a violent collision, after a complicated history. That older ...

MADAWASKA, Maine — The Maine Solar System Model just got two new additions for the first time since 2008. The dwarf planets Makemake and Haumea were installed in the St. John Valley Saturday to ...