In a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, an international team of researchers led by the University of…
A new proposal for an interstellar mission shows how a solar sail could use the same technique birds do to…
A team led by NASA Marshall was selected to build a technology demonstrator called the Solar Cruiser to mature solar…
On March 26th, the ESA's Solar Orbiter made its closest approach to the Sun so far. It ventured inside Mercury's…
The Moon is the most studied object in space. But our nearest neighbour still holds a few mysteries. One of…
For the first time ever, a spacecraft has flown through the Sun’s outer atmosphere. The Parker Solar Probe passed through…
Where did Earth's water come from? Comets may have brought some of it. Asteroids may have brought some. Icy planetesimals…
Scientists have found the unmistakable presence of certain isotopes in an iron meteorite. Since these meteorites are thought to leftover…
Sometimes the sun spits out high-energy particles which slam into the Earth, potentially disrupting our sensitive electronics. New research has…
A deep-space mission is about to pull a ‘vanishing act,’ through mid-February, as the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter (affectionately…