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NASA’s New Horizons may be approaching one of the solar system’s most mysterious frontiers

New forecasts are helping scientists pinpoint one of the most elusive locations in space: the outer boundary of the Sun’s ...

Where might we find life in our solar system?

While life on Mars (and Venus) has long been an obsession for those wondering if we're alone, there are other places in our ...
Phys.org

NASA's new solar sail extends its booms and sets sail

Solar sails are an exciting way to travel through the solar system because they get their propulsion from the sun. NASA has developed several solar sails, and their newest, the Advanced Composite ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

New Frontiers in the Solar System: An Integrated Exploration Strategy

Unfortunately, this book can't be printed from the OpenBook. If you need to print pages from this book, we recommend downloading it as a PDF. Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this ...
techtimes

China Launches Tianwen-2 to Aim for Double Sample Return, Deeper Solar System Exploration

China envisions exploring the solar system, and it seems that would happen soon. The country launched Tianwen-2, an innovative space probe tasked with retrieving samples from an uncharted asteroid and ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Solar and Space Physics and Its Role in Space Exploration

The Sun is the source of energy for life on Earth and is the strongest modulator of the human physical environment. In fact, the Sun’s influence extends throughout the solar system, both through ...
Ars Technica

China extends its reach into the Solar System with launch of asteroid mission

A Chinese spacecraft built to collect specimens from an unexplored asteroid and return them to Earth successfully launched Wednesday from a military-run spaceport in the country’s mountainous interior ...
Nature

Complementary missions for Solar System exploration

In October 2024, two spacecrafts were successfully launched towards different bodies: Europa, a prime astrobiological target, and Dimorphos, the first test of planetary defence. Joined in their ...
insider.si.edu

Robotic exploration of the solar system / Paolo Ulivi ; with David M. Harland

Pt. 1. The golden age, 1957-1982. The beginning -- Of landers and orbiters -- The grandest tour -- Pt. 2. Hiatus and renewal, 1983-1996. The decade of Halley -- The era of flagships -- Faster, cheaper ...
insider.si.edu

50 years of solar system exploration historical perspectives edited by Linda Billings

Introduction: NASA's solar system exploration paradigm : the first fifty years and a look at the next fifty / James L. Green and Kristen J. Erickson -- Part I. Overview. Exploring the Solar System : ...
The Morning Journal on MSN

Westlake Porter Public Library opens new space exploration lab

Westlake Porter Public Library, 27333 Center Ridge Road, is inviting the community to celebrate its new Space Exploration Lab at a grand opening ceremony from 7-8 p.m. July 14, according to a news ...