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Feb. 25, 2025 — On Wednesday 26 February, a thermal imaging camera blasted off to the Moon as part of NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission. This aims to map sources of water on the Moon to shed ...

The NASA boffins in white coats and thick-rimmed glasses have detected new signals that show the Oort cloud - the spooky ...

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Space Solar Power (SSP), which can beam energy directly to disaster zones from space, regardless of ground conditions, offers a transformative solution. By developing SSP capability, the U.S ...

icy shell of comets and asteroids at the edge of the solar system. The researchers involved in the new study say these aren’t just random space rocks, either. Instead, they argue they’ve ...

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and infrastructure for permanent human outposts in space. To this end, Extraterrestrial Power has declared its ambition to become “the electricity provider of the solar system.” “For ...

The mysterious Oort cloud is the source of many of our solar system's comets, but astronomers still have no idea what it looks like. Now, new simulations may have given them a first glimpse.