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Private lunar lander Blue Ghost aces moon touchdown with a special delivery for NASA
A private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touched down on the moon Sunday, the latest in a string of companies looking to kickstart business on Earth's celestial neighbor ahead of astronaut ...
Space Exploration
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Two lunar landings in a week for NASA's private moon fleet
More than fifty years passed between the last Apollo mission and the United States' return to the lunar surface, when the first-ever private lander touched down last February.
Space Exploration
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Here's a look at moon landing hits and misses
Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses.
Space Exploration
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New theory suggests star mergers produce universe's highest-energy particles
Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays are the highest-energy particles in the universe, whose energies are more than a million times what can be achieved by humans. But while the existence of UHECRs has been known for 60 years, researchers ...
Astronomy
Mar 1, 2025
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What are the chances an asteroid will impact Earth in 2032?
For a few days in mid-February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, asteroid 2024 YR4. The chance of this impact rose to a high of 3.1 percent on ...
Planetary Sciences
Mar 1, 2025
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A new study reveals the structure of violent winds 1,300 light years away
The planet WASP-121b is extreme. It's a gas giant almost twice as big as Jupiter orbiting extremely close to its star–50 times closer than the Earth does around the sun. WASP-121b is so close to its star that tidal forces ...
Planetary Sciences
Mar 1, 2025
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European satellite launcher set for first commercial blast off
After several postponements, Europe's Ariane 6 launcher will carry out its first commercial mission on Monday when it puts a French military intelligence satellite into space.
Space Exploration
Mar 1, 2025
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How to see rare 'planetary parade' in the sky tonight
The seven other planets in our solar system will line up in the night sky on Friday evening for a rare alignment called a "planetary parade" that will not happen again until 2040.
Planetary Sciences
Feb 28, 2025
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Indian spacecraft Aditya-L1 observes massive solar flare
When the sun hurled enormous amounts of radiation into space in an explosive eruption on February 22, 2024, the Indian space probe Aditya-L1, launched a few months earlier, was watching closely—and thus captured the first ...
Astronomy
Feb 28, 2025
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Mars's northern ice cap is surprisingly young, planetary scientists find
If you've ever looked at Mars through a telescope, you probably noticed its two polar ice caps. The northern one is made largely of water ice—the most obvious sign that Mars was once a wetter, warmer world. A team of researchers ...
Planetary Sciences
Feb 28, 2025
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Mars time machine: Researchers create virtual model to decode red planet's climate evolution
Researchers are creating advanced simulations that will provide a deeper understanding of Mars's climatic history and help to determine whether it was once able to sustain life.
Astrobiology
Feb 28, 2025
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Mission accomplished for Integral, ESA's gamma-ray telescope
Today, the European Space Agency's gamma-ray telescope ends its observations. During its 22 years in space, Integral has reshaped our view of the most dramatic events in the universe. The high-energy observatory played a ...
Astronomy
Feb 28, 2025
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Hydrogen cyanide and acetylene detected in a brown dwarf atmosphere for the first time
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has explored the atmosphere of a nearby brown dwarf binary designated WISE J045853.90+643451.9. As a result, they detected hydrogen cyanide ...
Engineers create first flat telescope lens that can capture color while detecting light from faraway stars
For centuries, lenses have worked the same way: curved glass or plastic bending light to bring images into focus. But traditional lenses have a major drawback—the more powerful they need to be, the bulkier and heavier they ...
Astronomy
Feb 27, 2025
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Hubble provides bird's-eye view of Andromeda galaxy's ecosystem
Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly the angular size of the full moon. What backyard observers don't see is a swarm of nearly ...
Astronomy
Feb 27, 2025
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How did life develop on early Earth? New source of nitrogen discovered
Living organisms need nitrogen as a central building block for protein formation, for example. However, although our atmosphere contains plenty of nitrogen, neither humans nor the vast majority of plants can absorb it directly ...
Astrobiology
Feb 27, 2025
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The ISS is overly sterile: Making it 'dirtier' could improve astronaut health
Astronauts often experience immune dysfunction, skin rashes, and other inflammatory conditions while traveling in space. A new study published in the journal Cell suggests that these issues could be due to the excessively ...
Space Exploration
Feb 27, 2025
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Private US company blasts off for second moon landing attempt
A US company is aiming for its second lunar touchdown after a lander carrying a suite of unique experiments successfully launched aboard a SpaceX rocket on Wednesday.
Space Exploration
Feb 27, 2025
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Metal made in space lands on Earth
The first metal 3D part ever created in orbit has landed on Earth.
Space Exploration
Feb 27, 2025
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NASA installs heat shield on first private spacecraft bound for Venus
Led by Rocket Lab of Long Beach, California, and their partners at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Rocket Lab's Venus mission will be the first private mission to the planet.
Space Exploration
Feb 27, 2025
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