RTGs have been key to the success of many of NASA’s solar system and deep-space missions. The Mars Curiosity and Perseverance rovers and the New Horizons spacecraft that visited Pluto in 2015 have all ...

Breaking news shocked Villanova’s campus last Saturday, March 15. Everyone remembers exactly where they were when they ...

The first time you may have heard the term ‘dwarf planet’ was when Pluto got demoted to one in 2006 (RIP). However, we actually have six in our Solar System. Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris ...

The Sunbird concept is for the fusion-powered ‘tugs’ to be permanently based in space, able to dock with spacecraft and ...

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The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

How do we power missions in the outer reaches of our solar system and beyond? The solution, developed in the '60s, can last ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...

Bothell, Wash.-based Portal Space Systems shows off the lab where its solar thermal propulsion system will be developed.

Uranus' accidental discovery 240 years ago greatly enhanced our understanding of the solar system, doubling the size of the ...