5 thousand recognised worlds. That is the following, most ballyhooed milestone in the ongoing hunt for exoplanets, the confirmed full of which presently tallies just a number of hundred shy in our catalogues. Far more extraordinary than these sheer quantities, however, is the diversity they expose. A fraction of the […]
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Could Carbon-Foam Probes Sail to Nearby Stars?
Spacecraft made of carbon-foam bubbles could zoom from Earth to Alpha Centauri in 185 yrs, pushed solely by the electrical power of the solar, a new study finds. A swarm of these probes might help uncover and study our photo voltaic system’s mysterious Planet Nine, if this hypothesized earth exists, scientists added. Regular […]