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Only two spacecraft have breached the solar system’s edge – now we're about to find out its true shape
The boundary of the Solar System remains somewhat poorly understood. We know we are within it, in a region of space called ...
Morning Overview on MSN
What Voyager 1 and 2 found beyond the solar system stunned scientists
When NASA’s twin Voyager probes left Earth in 1977, they carried computers weaker than a hand calculator and a modest goal of ...
How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of ...
The Daily Galaxy on MSN
NASA just parked a spacecraft that could redraw the solar system, it might finally map its true shape
A NASA spacecraft has just reached its permanent observation point to begin a mission unlike any before. Known as IMAP, the ...
Morning Overview on MSN
Why humanity may never escape the solar system, no matter how hard we try
Humanity has already flung machines into interstellar space, but sending people is a different problem entirely. The physics ...
Modern Engineering Marvels on MSN
Spacecraft across the solar system capture 3I/ATLAS’s fast, CO2-heavy coma
At an estimated velocity of 250,000 kilometers per hour, interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS lacked the luxury of long, recurring ...
Solar wind sounds poetic, but it's a very real and powerful phenomenon, connecting the Sun to every part of our solar system.
Using data collected by NASA's Parker Solar Probe during its closest approach to the sun, a University of Arizona-led ...
NASA researchers show that artificial intelligence can anticipate solar flare buildups by tracking subtle changes across the ...
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