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A solar sail is no longer just a graceful idea for propellant-free flight; it is becoming a materials and deployment problem that engineers are finally learning how to solve. That shift matters ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is leaving our solar system. See new photos from a European Space Agency orbiter on its way to Jupiter.

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Several of NASA's space-based missions have observed Interstellar Comet 3I⧸ATLAS. As it approaches Mars, orbiters and rovers ...

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