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.
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James Webb Space Telescope sees four giant alien planets circling nearby star (images)
"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...
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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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 ...
Scientists Potentially Found a Three-Body Problem in Space—but the Mystery Is Just Beginning
Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...
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The solar system is teeming with 1 million 'alien invaders' from Alpha Centauri
One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about ...
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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The James Webb Space Telescope achieves its first direct images of carbon dioxide outside our solar system
"We have observed giant gas planets, such as Jupiter or Saturn, but in another solar system," explains the leader of this research on the HR 8799 system, located 130 light-years away. The study ...
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Spiral structure discovered at the edge of our solar system can't be explained
Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...
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Space Mystery of the Week: Why Does Our Solar System Like Spirals?
Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.
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The solar system was once engulfed by a vast wave of gas and dust
The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...
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Webb telescope 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 ...