The venture, privately funded to start, is now run by the University of Arizona. And today, scientists there are quietly plugging away at research they hope will help us all adapt to the Biosphere 1 — ...

Society NASA is facing the biggest crisis in its history Widespread proposed budget cuts have left the US space agency facing an uncertain future at the same time as NASA’s intended new leader ...

The Quest For “Planet X” The idea that a distant, hidden planet might exist in our solar system has been around for a while. In the early days of 20th-century astronomy, icons such as Percival Lowell ...

Space & Spaceflight These Satellites Just Nailed the Most Precise Formation Flight in Space History ESA's Proba-3 just achieved a world-first: millimeter-precise formation flying, entirely on its own.

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The solar system has been a topic of study from the beginning of history. For nearly all that time, people have had to rely on long-range and indirect measurements of its objects. For all of human ...

UK-based start-up Space Solar is hoping to have a pioneering system up and running, with an investment of $800 million, delivering a set-up capable of beaming back 30 megawatts of energy to Earth by ...

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