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A mass driver on the Moon—a concept straight out of science fiction—is inching closer to reality, promising to transform how we explore the solar system. Imagine launching resources directly into space, bypassing Earth’s costly gravity…

Europa Clipper, the biggest interplanetary spacecraft that NASA has ever built, lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Monday afternoon.The mission will tackle one of biology’s core questions: Can life exist anywhere…

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Saturn has been confirmed to have more than 100 moons, meaning it may have the most of any planet in the solar system.The planet has overtaken Jupiter, which has only 95 moons, according to the University of British Columbia.The…

If there is extraterrestrial life in our solar system, experts have long thought it could be hiding beneath Mars' surface, in Venus' clouds or in the icy oceans of Jupiter and Saturn's moons.But a new study points to another…