Lower-cost space missions like NASA’s ESCAPADE are starting to deliver exciting science – but at a price in risk and trade‑offs

After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has ...
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Science in NASA's Vision for Space Exploration

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. We live in an extraordinary period of exploration. Over the last few decades, humanity ...
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NASA launches mission to study sun-fueled bubble that protects our solar system

A NASA mission to study the heliosphere—the sun's magnetic bubble that shields our solar system—and develop a better understanding of space weather was launched from the agency's Kennedy Space Center ...
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NASA just uncovered a stunning solar system secret

NASA scientists have recently made a groundbreaking discovery about potential alien life within our own solar system, a finding that could have significant implications for our understanding of ...

First-of-its-kind NASA rotorcraft nearly ready to explore Saturn’s moon in 2034

A big step in the exploration of other planets in our solar system is within reach as NASA makes a big announcement.
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NASA Can Open Up the Solar System With Nuclear Propulsion

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolith, hued ...
SpaceNews

Things to come: Important bellwethers for space exploration in 2026

NASA is at an inflection point. 2026 will now begin with a newly-confirmed Jared Isaacman as a NASA Administrator with the White House directive to beat China back to the moon with astronauts. On the ...
The New York Times

NASA Launches Mission to Map the Bubble Around Our Solar System

A NASA mission, IMAP, and two more spacecraft that will study space weather are traveling through space atop a single SpaceX rocket. By Kenneth Chang A SpaceX rocket launched on Wednesday morning ...
Space.com

SpaceX targets Sept. 23 for launch of NASA's IMAP mission to map the boundaries of our solar system

IMAP data "will help us better understand the fundamental physics of the heliosphere." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking ...
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NASA Threw Virtually Everything It’s Got at This Interstellar Visitor. Here’s What It Captured

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has spent the last several months on a tour of our solar system. NASA spacecraft and telescopes have snapped photos of this celestial visitor over the course of its journey ...
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On Scientific Assessment of NASA's Solar System Exploration Roadmap: Letter Report

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