And it very nearly did not happen. That's the story I want to tell here.
All five hour-long episodes of "Solar System" are available to stream now via BBC iPlayer in the UK (valid TV Licence ...
Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts. Nasa has successfully sent a laser signal about 290 million miles, smashing ...
NASA has harnessed the energy of the Sun to power spacecraft and drive scientific discovery across our solar system. Today, NASA continues to advance solar panel technology and test new innovations.
New Horizons—the famous NASA spacecraft that flew by Pluto in 2015—is now making new discoveries beyond the Kuiper Belt. With ...
The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...
Mars is a famously red object in our solar system, but it’s not the reddest. That honor goes to Amalthea, a tiny moon orbiting around massive gas giant planet Jupiter. NASA’s Juno spacecraft ...
As 2023 comes to an end, let us take a look at the jaw-dropping pictures of our solar system that NASA has shared throughout ...
For comparison, Neptune lies at 30 AU and New Horizons is currently 60 AU from the sun, while NASA's Voyager 1 and ... where the Kuiper Belt is in our solar system. "Our solar system's Kuiper ...
We now know that black holes occur frequently throughout the universe. One Sagittarius A* sits at the center of our galaxy, ...
A NASA spacecraft erected a large, foil solar sail in orbit around Earth last week, after a failed attempt days earlier.
An experimental NASA solar sail can be seen in the night sky ... by lasers could reach Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our own, in order to search for life.