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Uranus and Neptune may not be 'ice giants' after all, new research suggests

We actually know very little about what's going on inside Uranus and Neptune, causing researchers to propose that these ...

NASA's Voyager 1 Is About To Make History Again

NASA's Voyager probes are the only spacecraft to reach interstellar space. However, Voyager 1 is going to achieve another ...

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 ...

Longstanding 'ice giant' classification of Uranus and Neptune might be conflicted

What if our understanding of Uranus and Neptune's compositions have been wrong, specifically regarding their classifications as "ice giants?" This is what a recent study accepted for publication in ...

NASA mulls possible mission to Venus after recent discovery of possible life

NASA is considering approving by next April up to two planetary science missions from four proposals under review, including one to Venus that scientists involved in the project said could help ...

One NASA science mission saved from Trump’s cuts, but others still in limbo

NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of ...