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'Ultimate Cosmic Carpool' Sends Three New Missions to Monitor Space Weather and the Protective Bubble Around Our Solar System
A SpaceX launch early Wednesday morning sent a trio of spacecraft toward a destination almost one million miles from Earth. The missions—two for NASA and one for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
As a NASA spacecraft whizzed away from Earth at 40,265 mph, it took a brief moment to look over its robotic shoulder at how far it's traveled. Psyche, a mission and orbiter named after its space ...
The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.
Dwarf planet 2023 KQ14, Ammonite, has a stable orbit that challenges the hypothesis of the mysterious Planet Nine.
Our solar system may have an outer “edge” just outside the orbit of Pluto, astronomers announced recently. Their results suggest that early in the history of the solar system, some event stripped away ...
NASA's Psyche orbiter looked back and snapped a photo of Earth with the moon on its way to the asteroid Psyche in 2029. - NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU illustration As a NASA spacecraft whizzed away from ...
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