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A new NASA spacecraft has started tracking the particle streams that can make a massive solar flare dangerous while mapping ...

Researchers at Cornell University have assembled a shortlist of rocky exoplanets sitting inside their stars’ habitable zones, ranking them as plausible destinations for an interstellar probe that ...

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In the silent, freezing expanse of interstellar space, a small spacecraft launched in the era of disco and analog tape has just achieved a feat once thought to belong only to science fiction. NASA’s ...

Researchers have outlined a plan to send humans to a star system beyond the solar system aboard a 58‑kilometre long ...

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