Voyager 1 space probe reaches outer fringe of solar system
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Voyager 1, launched in 1977 to explore the outer planets, has passed into a new region on its way out of the solar system, scientists said on Wednesday. Full story
NASA's Voyager 1 Probe May Have Left Solar System: Study
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft — the farthest-flung object created by human hands — has traveled beyond the sun's sphere of influence and may even have left the solar system forever, a new study suggests. Full story
Google Doodle celebrates Copernicus, guy who was right about solar system
It's Nicolaus Copernicus' 540th birthday, and Google marked the day with a lovely medieval model of the heliocentric solar system. Why? Because Copernicus was the first person to say what every kindergartner now knows: "The Earth goes around the sun."Fun fact: Copernicus pulled … Full story
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Space telescope to hunt asteroids
Leaders of the B612 Foundation explain their plan to launch the first privately funded deep-space mission, aimed at mapping the inner solar system. Credit: B612 Foundation
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Is far-away planet a potential Earth 2.0?
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson speaks with TODAY’s Matt Lauer about the whether human life could really be relocated to another planet outside our solar system.
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