Most NASA missions feature one spacecraft or, occasionally, a few. The agency's Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE) uses half a dozen. This month, mission members completed the construction of the six identical ...
Astronomy
Nov 30, 2023
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At the very center of the Earth is a core of metal—so hot and so deep down as to be unreachable and impossible to study directly. But we might learn more about it and the cores of other Earth-like planets by studying the ...
Space Exploration
Oct 12, 2023
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A lunar rover slid down a ramp from the lander of India's spacecraft within hours of its historic touch-down near the moon's south pole, Indian space officials said Thursday, as the country celebrated its new scientific accomplishment.
Space Exploration
Aug 24, 2023
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Europe's Euclid space telescope is scheduled to blast off Saturday on the first-ever mission aiming to shed light on two of the universe's greatest mysteries: dark energy and dark matter.
Space Exploration
Jul 1, 2023
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ESA's Gaia mission has been collecting data on millions of space objects like stars and asteroids to build an extensive cosmic record. Now, to take it up a notch, it needs your eyes.
Astronomy
Mar 23, 2023
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ESA's Euclid mission is undergoing the final test before launch in July 2023.
Space Exploration
Feb 20, 2023
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When a spacecraft enters a thick atmosphere at a high velocity, it rapidly compresses the gas in front of it. This creates temperatures high enough to ionize the gas molecules into a hot, dense plasma. To protect against ...
Materials Science
Jan 12, 2023
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It's been an eventful year for space exploration, with successes including the completion of Nasa's Artemis 1 mission (finally), the inauguration of the James Webb Space Telescope, and the completion of China's Tiangong space ...
Space Exploration
Dec 27, 2022
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Meet the scientific heart of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission, which will see Earth's water in higher definition than ever before.
Planetary Sciences
Dec 13, 2022
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A four-legged robot trained through artificial intelligence has learned the same lesson as the Apollo astronauts—that jumping can be the best way to move around on the surface the moon. An update on LEAP (Legged Exploration ...
Space Exploration
Sep 21, 2022
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