NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft captured Earth and moon images during a gravity-assist flyby, confirming instrument functionality and maintaining course for its 2029 encounter with asteroid Apophis.
A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...
In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...
Quantum theory fails to explain how the reality we experience emerges from the world of particles. A new take on quantum ...
If we find technological satellites of Jupiter that we did not send, it would imply that Jupiter is of interest to an ...
The Nuclear Furnace at the Sun's Heart The temperature in the Sun's core is about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit (15 million ...
The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...
Tossing a bad guy into the Sun sounds simple enough, but orbital mechanics make it a far trickier task than you'd expect.
NASA has scheduled a photo-dump of 3I/ATLAS images captured by the agency's fleet of ground and space instruments. You can ...
On Wednesday, Nov. 19, NASA will unveil more 3I/ATLAS images captured by the space agency's fleet of instruments both on the ...
If, for some reason, we as a society executed villains by firing them into the Sun, this is how an astronomers says we would ...
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 ...