Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth's climate, exploring the Solar System, and ...

Abstract: The concept development of any system includes the definition of various parameters of interest and the determination of the threshold (satisfactory) and goal (desired) value for each. These ...

Video shows NASA's futuristic solar sail technology prototype. Like a sail on the ocean propels a boat with the wind, this space sail is meant to propel payloads by harnessing the pressure of sunlight ...

Abstract: Water is fundamental to life on Earth and is a key molecular marker for a habitable environment. Yet, after decades of solar system exploration, the origins, abundance, and distribution of ...

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Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth's orbit came from. The origin of the differing tilts in the orbits of the ...

A comet known as 3I/ATLAS made news when it was confirmed to be the 3rd-ever object observed to have originated outside Earth's solar system. Though the object poses no threat to Earth, astronomers ...

The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered dozens of NASA missions over the past 50 years But RPS is expensive, costing ...

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