Prepare to jump to light speed: Inside the mission to go interstellar
10 April 2019
Proxima Centauri is 4 light years away. Ambitious space mission Breakthrough Starshot is developing a way to push spacecraft there at a fifth of the speed of light
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Super-Earths draw asteroids to other worlds, which may seed life
26 September 2017
Asteroid collisions can be destructive – just ask the dinosaurs – but they also bring key ingredients for life. Super-Earths can draw them to nearby worlds
Nine probes reached the outer solar system: Where are they now?
12 September 2017
Besides Cassini, eight missions have passed the asteroid belt – and several are still broadcasting from the furthest solar system and beyond
Uranus's crooked, messy magnetic field might open and shut daily
23 June 2017
The off-kilter tumbling of the magnetic bubble around Uranus may regularly let a barrage of charged particles from the solar wind flow in
