Humanity's drive to explore has taken us across the solar system, with astronaut boots, various landers and rovers' wheels ...
The ice giant Uranus, named as a top priority destination by the National Academies, could be reached in half the time using ...
The ice giants remain some of the most interesting places to explore in the solar system. Uranus in particular has drawn a ...
From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...
IMAP (short for "Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe") is the primary payload on today's flight. The roughly $600 ...
After four rounds of layoffs in two years that cut a quarter of its employees, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory now faces a ...
The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...
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This is why we'll Never leave the Solar System

Humanity has achieved incredible milestones in space exploration, from landing on the Moon to sending probes beyond our solar system—but true interstellar travel remains far beyond our reach. This ...
On Sept. 21-22, a partial solar eclipse will see the moon sweep over the sun's disk, blocking its light over a swathe of the ...
Pittsburgh-based aerospace company Astrobotic and Honda’s North American subsidiary are working on integrating Astrobotic’s vertical solar array technology with Honda’s regenerative fuel cell system ...
A team of scientists from Southern University of Science and Technology has published a paper highlighting the importance of ...
Astronomers have discovered new evidence that suggests the possibility of an unknown planet in our solar system's farthest ...