Our solar system is situated inside a vast, 1,000-light-year-wide cavity, Local Hot Bubble. This idea was first introduced ...

Scientists have discovered that Uranus and its moons may not be the lifeless worlds previously thought after new research ...

If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".

Avi Loeb's controversial claim that a recent fireball resulted from an interstellar object is taking a hammering.

Iceland’s Transition Labs and UK-based Space Solar are developing a solar plant in space that is expected to power 1,500 to 3 ...

NASA’s Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX) is ready to launch to the International Space Station to reveal new details ...

Smaller size, single purpose Sending a satellite into space is nothing new, of course. The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 into Earth orbit back in 1957.Today, about 10,000 active satellites are ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

“The primary objective of the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System demonstration is to test deployment of the booms in space to inform future applications of the composite boom technology for ...

Offering 30 MW of power, it could be launched by a single Starship rocket, and scale to gigawatt systems from there. Sure, there are engineering challenges, but these are mostly based on ensuring that ...

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Complex carbon-based molecules crucial to life on Earth originated somewhere in space, but we didn't know where. Now, huge amounts of them have been spotted in a huge, cold cloud of gas ...