Astrogram banner TIME Recognizes the Advanced Composite Solar Sail SystemIn October, the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System ...

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 ...

The probe will orbit the sun "close enough to pass inside a solar eruption, like a surfer diving under a crashing ocean wave, ...

The plasma magnet drive with dynamic soaring is a system that could be plausibly scaled for human crewed missions up to 2-3% ...

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.