If we achieve advanced nuclear, antimatter propulsion or other advance propulsion it would be possible to achieve near constant acceleration. This would enable travel times to Mars in the 3-8 day ...
NASA’s experimental solar sail is ready to take flight in Earth orbit, using the pressure of sunlight to test a new way of propulsion through the cosmos. The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System(ACS3) ...
The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...
The Nature Network on MSN
Why we might never leave the solar system, no matter what we invent
We dream about travelling to distant stars, colonising alien worlds, and spreading humanity across the galaxy. It’s the stuff ...
Morning Overview on MSN
Voyager’s scorching brush with the edge of the solar system
At the far edge of the Solar System, where the Sun’s influence thins into the dark between the stars, a pair of aging ...
Scientists have developed a new prediction of the shape of the bubble surrounding our solar system using a model developed with data from NASA missions. All the planets of our solar system are encased ...
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