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NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton was honored by TIME Magazine “Best Inventions of 2024.” The Advanced Composite Solar ...

On Nov. 6, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its seventh and final Venus gravity-assist maneuver, passing within 240 miles ...

SpaceX has massively accelerated the development of space. Predicting the speed of space development requires predicting the ...

Proba-3 is such an ambitious mission that it needs more than one single spacecraft to succeed. In order for Proba-3's ...

NASA is gearing up for its Parker Solar Probe to do a final flyby of Venus on Wednesday on its way to make a record-breaking ...

NASA's futuristic solar sail technology prototype is getting ready to launch to space this year. Like a sail on the ocean ...

As NASA continues to innovate for the benefit of humanity, agency inventions that use new structures to harness sunlight for ...

In a buzzing corner of campus, a group of students is pushing the limits of student-led space innovation. The newly ...

Still Tumbling NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3), a dazzling spacecraft that is designed to exclusively make use of the tiny amounts of radiation pressure exerted by sunlight for ...

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This vehicle could help NASA learn how to harness the Sun's limitless energy to sail through the vacuum of space—if it works.