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NASA Spacecraft Deep Into The Solar System Discovers New Unexpected Mystery
A NASA spacecraft far from Earth has made an unexpected discovery, after turning its instruments towards a dark patch of sky ...
Radioisotope generators − inside the ‘nuclear batteries’ that power faraway spacecraft
Radioisotope thermoelectric generators do not rely on chemical reactions like the batteries in your phone. Instead, they rely ...
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I Never Knew It Was This Dark On Pluto
Surely with Pluto so far away from the Sun, it would be pitch black there, right? Well the answer may surprise you.
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The 1960s Tech Keeping NASA’s Voyager Probes Alive for Nearly 50 Years
The Mars Curiosity and Perseverance rovers and the New Horizons spacecraft that visited Pluto in 2015 have all used RTGs. New ...
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Hubble Telescope discovers a new '3-body problem' puzzle among Kuiper Belt asteroids (video)
NASA's New Horizons probe flew by Pluto in 2015 and Arrokoth in 2019. There's no visit to Altjira in the works, but the researchers behind the new study hope that detailed remote observations of ...
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Is NASA's science budget heading for a black hole?
This comes shortly after the agency was told to get ready to lay off 1,000 employees. That threat was removed, possibly at the behest of the incoming Administrator Jared Isaacman. Still, according to ...
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Inside radioisotope generators, the ‘nuclear batteries’ that power faraway spacecraft
The Mars Curiosity and Perseverance rovers and the New Horizons spacecraft that visited Pluto in 2015 have all used RTGs. New Horizons is traveling out of the solar system, where its RTGs will ...
A Stunning Fusion Rocket Could Cut Interplanetary Travel in Half—and We'll Try It in Just 2 Years
Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to ...