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As it heads out of the solar system never to return, the deep space probe Voyager 1 is headed for yet another cosmic ...

NASA detects first “magnetic switchback” near Earth: an energetic change in your space shield that reveals new solar risks.

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NASA has a number of telescope assets which have captured images of interstellar comet. They include: The Hubble, Webb, TESS, ...

First up, just pointing a rocket at the Sun and blasting as hard as you can would result in a wild miss. The main problem you ...

We live in changing times. While we once flippantly threw villains to the lions, now we seek to fire them into the sun.

Today Psyche spacecraft on 2025 September 4 has a chance to look at 0.302 AU distance as 3I/Atlas passes by Mars. October, the martian spacecraft array on 2025 October 3 and the Juice spacecraft on ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - If you think 2,500 degrees is hot, try 10,000! This is the temperature around the sun’s surface. But this, of course, didn’t stop man from trying to get as close to it as ...