A mission that could reach Mercury on solar sails alone
Turns out, it's as tough to drop inward into the inner solar system, as it is to head outward. The problem stems from losing momentum from a launch starting point on Earth. It can take missions ...
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JWST finds spiral galaxy about 5 times more massive than Milky Way — scientists call it 'Big Wheel'
A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion ...
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Scientists are using stellar 'quakes' to peer inside stars
Like earthquakes, ripples of gas on a star's surface — referred to as stellar quakes — offer clues about what lies beneath.
SpaceX’s Fram2 mission set to return from first-of-its-kind mission around Earth’s poles
The Fram2 mission, paid for and led by a cryptocurrency billionaire who is flying with three guests, is on track to return ...
An eerie spiral lit up the European skies. Here’s why such light shows are becoming more common
Rocket launches can create eerie patterns in the sky, from undulating bright-blue spirals to glowing “jellyfish” blobs.