Credit: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI illustration Zooming through the outer reaches of the solar system, A NASA spacecraft just clocked ... to meddle with conventional ideas about how the solar system ...

“There were lots of good ideas for how to do things ... than could Voyager 1 and 2. The spacecraft is thought to be in a “desert” between an inner and outer Kuiper Belt region, in which ...

But sending spacecraft to scout extraterrestrial seas is neither trivial nor for the impatient. Voyages to the outer solar system ... about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today.

The spacecraft will then use Mars as a slingshot to get itself to the outer solar system. At this point, the travel time will be years. Eventually, we have made it to Jupiter, and once the ...

A project from UCLA's Artur Davoyan, meanwhile, could speed up missions to the outer edge of the Solar System and even interstellar space. His design (shown at middle) would propel spacecraft by ...