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Interplanetary Missions
No human has ever left the Solar System, and only six already-launched spacecraft will ever exit it. Will Voyager 1 remain the most distant?
The unanswered questions about sex, love, and pregnancy in space could shape the future of humanity more than we think.
First 'Oumuamua, then Borisov, and now ATLAS have shown us that interstellar interlopers are real. Here's what the newest one teaches us.
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"There is interesting ethical questions about how we should actually conduct ourselves in [a space colonization] exploration phase."
If the past is any guide, things are going to take off quickly.
Voyager 2 flew past Uranus in 1986, finding a bland, featureless world. Now, in 2023, JWST's sights are similar. There's a reason for that.
You can't throw a DART at everything in space.
The DART mission tested whether it's possible to deflect an asteroid by crashing something into it.
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Humans won’t survive if we stay on Earth. Michio Kaku explains.
We've only seen Uranus up close once: from Voyager 2, back in 1986. The next time we do it, its features will look entirely different.
As long as it remains operational, we’ll have a chance to conduct groundbreaking science with it. In the history of spaceflight, only five spacecraft ever launched by humanity possess enough energy […]
The view from beyond Pluto is far enough from Earth that we can see the stars shift. NASA’s New Horizons, humanity’s first spacecraft to encounter Pluto, is more than 4.3 billion […]
Sedna could be the very first known object from the Inner Oort Cloud. But time is running out to create and launch a mission. In 2003, scientists discovered an object beyond […]