This LEGO Clockwork Solar System Is a Highly Detailed Build That Needs to Become Real
10 Mar 2023, 16:20 UTC · By: Angela Balaciu / We have seen a few interesting LEGO fan-made builds but this one is quite special, not only it has almost 3,000 pieces but is also motorized
New Power Source for Spaceships Could Make CubeSats a Common Sight in the Solar System
20 Feb 2023, 13:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A NIAC 2023 recognized idea talks of a new power source for small spacecraft that could help launch more complex missions to the outer planets
New Goldilocks Zone Earth-Like Planet Discovered in a System That Already Had One
11 Jan 2023, 13:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA astronomers discover the second Goldilocks Zone Earth-like planet in the same solar system, sadly to far away to tell us anything
We Just Received a Message From Voyager 1, the Space Probe Outside Our Solar System
26 Aug 2022, 20:40 UTC · By: Angela Balaciu / Voyager 1, the furthest human-made object from Earth is still sending us messages from so far away, a hero that brought us beautiful images of the Space
Voyager 2 Turns 45, Let's Take This Occasion To Celebrate Space Exploration
21 Aug 2022, 09:48 UTC · By: Angela Balaciu / Yesterday we celebrated 45 since August 20th, 1977, the launch of Voyager 2, the spacecraft that ventured past our Solar System
Largest Comet Ever Discovered Is Toying With Our Solar System, Let’s Hope It Stays Away
9 Feb 2022, 12:15 UTC · By: Sergiu Tudose / The Bernardinelli-Bernstein comet is estimated to be five and a half times as long as Mars’ Olympus Mons, the solar system’s tallest mountain
There’s So Much Water in the Solar System and Beyond It’s Surprising
8 Jan 2022, 11:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA says “the Solar System and beyond is awash” in water in various forms, substance is essential to the success of exploration missions
Airbus Awarded Multi-Million Contract to Build an Exoplanet-Hunting Spacecraft for ESA
8 Dec 2021, 00:41 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / ESA has awarded Airbus a € 200 million contract to design and build a spacecraft that will hunt planets located beyond our Solar System
This Is Our Sun, Glowing Like an Evil Halloween Pumpkin
30 Oct 2021, 07:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / An image of the Sun captured back in 2014 by the Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the Sun in our solar system in a very Halloween-ish mood
So How Did Our Solar System Form? NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Is on Its Way to Find Out
17 Oct 2021, 20:59 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / NASA's spacecraft Lucy has already started its four-billion-mile odyssey to the "fossils" of the solar system, looking to solve the mysteries of our cosmic home
Fastest Orbiting Asteroid in Our Solar System Has Uncertain Origins and Explosive Future
9 Oct 2021, 10:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Named 2021 PH27, a recently-dsicovered asteroid moves around the Sun once every 113 days, making it the fastest of its kind that we know of
Huge Oort Cloud Object Now in Our Solar System, May Turn Into a Comet
24 Jun 2021, 07:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / An object originating into the Oort cloud is moving into our solar system; it may become the largest comet ever discovered
Orion EON Telescope Lets You Peer Into Galaxies Far Far Away With Superb Clarity
14 Apr 2021, 16:02 UTC · By: Cristian Curmei / This telescope is suitable for both solar system and deep-sky viewing; a three-element and air-spaced lens assembly offer x19 to x260 magnification
NASA Targeting the Sun Again With Two Tongue-Twisting Missions
30 Dec 2020, 15:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA and a series of partners are ready for two more missions by the end of this decade meant to study the Sun in our solar system
Caviar iPhone 11 Pro Doubles as Tourbillon Watch and Massive Gold Bar
6 Nov 2019, 21:14 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / If you like your gadgets tricked out to the max, no one does it better than Caviar: the iPhone 11 Pro is now “Discovery Solarius” with gold and diamonds
Voyager 2 Becomes Second Human-Made Ship to Enter Interstellar Space
10 Dec 2018, 15:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA says it will take about 300 years for the Voyager 2 to reach the Oort Cloud and as much as 30,000 years to fly beyond it
Voyager 2 Nears Interstellar Space
8 Oct 2018, 13:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Voyager 2 close to follow the Voyager 1 into interstellar space, as it detected fast-moving particles that originate outside the solar system
Porsche Cars North America Unveils Urban Solar Power Array
20 Mar 2009, 09:19 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Representatives of Porsche Cars North America and Ontario, California Mayor Paul S. Leon today unveiled the first solar power system deployed at any of the manufacturer's US production faciliti...