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‘Ultimate Cosmic Carpool’ Sends Three New Missions to Monitor Space Weather and the Protective Bubble Around Our Solar System
The spacecraft will map the boundaries of the heliosphere, study how Earth’s outer atmosphere reacts to solar activity and ...
Back in 2019, a consortium of scientists predicted August 2025 as the peak of the solar activity cycle. But where are we now? The sun is powered by the nuclear fusion of hydrogen to helium, deep ...
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NASA Scientist Disputes Claim That Mysterious Object Headed Into Solar System Was Sent by Aliens
NASA has thrown cold water on Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb's theory that interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS was sent to us by an extraterrestrial civilization — a sobering albeit unsurprising conclusion ...
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Scientists issue update on mysterious 'interstellar object' racing through our solar system...
Scientists have issued a breathtaking new update on the mysterious 'interstellar object' racing through the solar system. This visitor from another solar system, named 3I/ATLAS, is currently rushing ...
When copper debuted in Minecraft on June of 2021, it was immediately a block with tons of potential, thanks to the ability to ...
On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...
Astronomers have uncovered a massive new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, lurking at the edge of our solar system. With an orbit stretching 25,000 years and a size that may qualify it as a dwarf ...
Astronomers have been racing to get a better look at 3I/ATLAS, a mysterious object screaming into our solar system from far beyond. Now, as the BBC reports, new observations by the Gemini South ...
Scientists studying samples from the asteroid Bennu have found that it contains a remarkable mix of materials — some of which formed long before the sun even existed. Taken together, the findings, ...
The US solar industry put nearly 18 gigawatts (GW) of new capacity on the grid in the first half of 2025. Even as the Trump administration rolled out anti-clean energy policies, solar and storage ...
A long-dormant coal mine waste site in Pennsylvania has new life, providing solar power to the local community thanks to a groundbreaking tracking system enabling installation across challenging ...
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