Our solar system might still bear the scars from an extremely close shave with an alien star. Such an encounter – the closest pass we know of – would have shaken up objects on the outskirts and might ...

To detect these black holes and prove this theory right, the researchers modeled the orbits of every large body in the solar system, and found that tiny wobbles in the orbit of Mars could indicate ...

That spaceflight, which Mr. Isaacman called Inspiration4, was the first to orbit the Earth without ... covers NASA and the solar system, and research closer to Earth. More about Kenneth Chang ...

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"If giant planets in our Solar System have rings, and if centaurs (asteroids beyond Jupiter's orbit) and trans-Neptunian objects ... Well, when you're an astronomer with a question and simulation ...

A quiet atmosphere pervades ESOC's Main Control Room. The operations team is in the process of placing a satellite into orbit. We are one minute away from passing over one ground station and the ...

What makes it stand out among its peers is an incredibly meticulous metabolism system which makes Scum a sort of simulation game that tracks ... six planets in your solar system, providing ...

A star’s flyby likely altered the orbits of trans-Neptunian objects beyond Neptune that changes how we view the solar ...

NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, or ACS3, has been fully deployed in orbit, according to the administration, and ...

NASA has released the first look at its Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) in orbit. Although the agency describes the device as currently “slowly tumbling” around the planet at an ...

The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System could pave the way for new, ultrafast forms of space travel.

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