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Ingenuity's little-helicopter-that-could proved that flight on another planet isn't just a one trick pony, but something that can be expanded upon. Enter NASA's next-generation Mars helicopter blades that have passed Mach 1 in ground...
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Here's a small little reminder that space exploration is still full of messy, unexpected surprises. A sample rock nicknamed Atacama clung to the Curiosity rover’s drill for days before the Mars robot finally shook it free, giving its...
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New analysis has turned NASA’s TESS mission from a targeted planet spotter into a broad census machine, with AI uncovering undiscovered worlds hiding in plain sight within the mission's data. For one, fresh tools like RAVEN have validated...
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NASA has tested a lithium-fed thruster that could become a workhorse for future Mars missions, and the key milestone is not just that it fired, but that it did so at power levels no previous electric thruster test in the United States ever...
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NASA's little busy-bee, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), just delivered another treasure giving scientists an unprecedented infrared look at the interior of the Tc 1 planetary nebula, located some 10,000 light-years away where...
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NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered an array of organic molecules within the Gale Crater on Mars using the onboard Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) suite. While organic compounds have been detected on Mars previously, this particular...
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When the Artemis II's four-person crew left Earth’s orbit, they were protected by a computing system designed to move beyond simple redundancy (a la the Apollo missions) to a fail-silent architecture that ensures one glitch never becomes a...
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More than five decades after the last human set foot on the lunar surface, NASA’s Artemis II mission has provided a breathtaking new perspective of our home world and its celestial neighbor through a series of historic images.
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NASA’s Artemis II mission has officially shattered the record for the farthest human spaceflight, but for those watching from the ground, perhaps one of the most relatable milestones involves a device found in millions of pockets: the...
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The crew of Artemis II is currently navigating the ultimate test of human endurance, proving that even a quarter-million-mile journey to the moon cannot escape the frustrations of a broken bathroom. While the mission marks humankind's...
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Heads up sky-gazers, fireball season is upon us! That's according to NASA, which notes that we're now in peak fireball season, a time period that typically runs from February through April. During that time, exceptionally bright meteor...
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Hubble has captured a phenomenon never before witnessed in the world of astronomy: a comet that slowed and then began spinning in the opposite direction. No alien intervention was involved in this one (as far as we...
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NASA’s top-dog telescopes, Hubble and Webb, have just released a never-before-seen collaborative portrait of Saturn. By combining Hubble’s visible-light vision with Webb’s infrared superpowers, astronomers have captured the gas giant in a...
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In a broad reorganization of the United States' lunar ambitions, NASA has effectively canceled Lunar Gateway, the planned space station that was to orbit the moon, in favor of a $20 billion permanent surface base. Furthermore, plans for a...
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A 7-ton asteroid roughly the size of a storage shed was spotted streaking across the Northeast Ohio sky at 45,000 mph, detonating over Medina County with the force of 250 tons of TNT. This event didn't just rattle windows from Cleveland to...
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A team of astronomers led by the University of Oxford has identified a new class of liquid planet, a world defined not by oceans of water, but by a global reservoir of molten magma thousands of miles deep and a volatile atmosphere.
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Astronomers have just discovered TOI-1080 b, a rocky super-Earth located approximately 83 light-years away. Spearheaded by a team from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, follow-up monitoring could reveal even more planets around...
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Back in 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully smashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, a kinetic impact experiment to see if we could knock a lethal space rock off course. New analysis this week...
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NASA has announced that the asteroid known as 2024 YR4, a space rock roughly the size of a 20-story building, no longer poses a threat of crashing into the Moon during its close approach in 2032. While initial projections suggested a slim...
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled a striking new photo of the "Exposed Cranium" Nebula, a celestial structure that, as the nickname implies, bears a strong resemblance to a human brain encased in a translucent...
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The ground at Kennedy Space Center began to hum yesterday evening as the crawler-transporter lurched into motion, beginning the slow, four-mile journey to return the Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft to the...
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NASA’s Curiosity rover has finally completed its focused survey of the so-called spiderwebs of Mars, providing us the first close-up look at a massive network of geologic ridges on Mount Sharp that have puzzled scientists since they were...
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