The 1960s Tech Keeping NASA’s Voyager Probes Alive for Nearly 50 Years
Solar panels are next to useless in the outer solar system, so NASA’s Voyager probes rely on nuclear batteries—technology ...
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The solar system is teeming with 1 million 'alien invaders' from Alpha Centauri
One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about ...
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Spiral structure discovered at the edge of our solar system can't be explained
Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...
Scientists Think They’ve Uncovered Mysterious Arms Near the Boundary of the Solar System
The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently, a group of researchers discovered that the inner portion of the Oort cloud likely has spiral arms ...
Ancient Asteroid Unlocks 4.6-Billion-Year-Old Magnetic Secrets of the Solar System
A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...
4.5 billion years: The moon is probably almost as old as the solar system
Researchers are still not sure how old the moon is. However, there is now growing evidence that it is almost as old as our ...
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Space Mystery of the Week: Why Does Our Solar System Like Spirals?
Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.
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Astronomers identify a celestial '3-body problem' lurking in the outer solar system
New research suggests that a binary pair of Kuiper Belt objects, known as the Altjira system, is actually made up of three ...
Alpha Centauri May Have Sent Millions of Asteroids into the Solar System
Alpha Centauri asteroids may be scattered in the Oort Cloud Some interstellar rocks could travel into the inner solar system ...