How can fission-powered propulsion help advance deep space exploration, specifically to the outer planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th ...

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Quantum computing has moved from lab curiosity to a technology that could reshape how humanity plans its most ambitious journeys into deep space. Instead of relying solely on brute-force rockets and ...

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This screenshot from CCTV (China Central Television) shows China’s first moon rover Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, in an image taken by the camera on the Chang’e 3 moon lander, Dec. 15, 2013. China does not ...

A groundbreaking discovery was recently made about the largest comet ever observed hurtling toward the sun from the Oort Cloud in the outer reaches of our solar system. Astronomers recently got a ...

The 70-meter antenna, designated DSS-14, at the Deep Space Network site in Goldstone, California. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — One of the largest antennas in NASA’s Deep Space Network was damaged in ...

One would think that this excellent question would be easy to answer: A bucket full of “deep space” would contain essentially nothing — and, well, there you are! Outer space is, after all, the closest ...