The curious minds at What If imagine a quasar entering our solar system, exploring radiation, gravitational effects, and planetary destruction.

Artist rendering of the Psyche spacecraft in orbit around its namesake asteroid. The robotic spacecraft Psyche has regained propulsion after a snag cut its propellant system in April. Engineers had to ...

Photo Courtesy PEEC PEEC NEWS RELEASE The Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) invites community members, space ...

The New Horizons spacecraft sends back its sensational snapshots of Jupiter, and its volcanic moon Io, before the mission's close encounter with Pluto (Photo by: Photo12/Universal Images Group via ...

For more than a century, popular culture has promised that humanity will spread effortlessly across the Solar System, turning Mars into a second Earth and building floating cities above Venus. The ...

Groundbreaking advances in solar and space physics have provided key insights into the inner workings of the heliosphere, the vast protective bubble formed by the solar wind that extends from the Sun ...

Introduction: NASA's solar system exploration paradigm : the first fifty years and a look at the next fifty / James L. Green and Kristen J. Erickson -- Part I. Overview. Exploring the Solar System : ...

"We welcome international partner interest in joining us as we expand exploration of the solar system for the benefit of humanity," Press Secretary Bethany Stevens said WASHINGTON, May 3. /TASS/. NASA ...

In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, where he introduced the concept of the "universal constructor." The theory ...

Homer Newell and the Origins of Planetary Science in the United States -- The Survival Crisis of the US Solar System Exploration Program in the 1980s -- Faster, Better, Cheaper: A Sociotechnical ...

Scientists at the European Space Agency used a laser to communicate with a spacecraft 165 million miles (265 million kilometers) away in deep space for the first time, marking a major step forward in ...