In-situ resource utilization will likely play a major role in any future long-term settlement of the moon. However, designing such a system in advance with our current level of knowledge will prove difficult, mainly because ...
Space Exploration
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The Federal Aviation Administration has said that it will allow Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket to fly again, following a review of the January mishap in which the rocket made a successful debut launch but crashed during landing.
Space Exploration
Apr 1, 2025
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The European Space Agency's short documentary film "Space Debris: Is it a Crisis?" on the state of space debris premiered at the 9th European Conference on Space Debris on 1 April 2025.
Planetary Sciences
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Dark matter is a confounding concept that teeters on the leading edges of cosmology and physics. We don't know what it is or how exactly it fits into our understanding of the universe. We only know that its unseen mass is ...
Astronomy
Mar 31, 2025
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Astronomers from the University of Sheffield and Pennsylvania State University have performed X-ray and optical observations of a massive star known as Melnick 39. As a result, they found that Melnick 39 is a colliding-wind ...
The ice-giant planet Uranus, which travels around the sun tipped on its side, is a weird and mysterious world. Now, in an unprecedented study spanning two decades, researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered ...
Planetary Sciences
Mar 31, 2025
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In April 2019, rare primitive meteorites fell near the town of Aguas Zarcas in northern Costa Rica. In an article published in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, an international team of researchers describes the ...
Planetary Sciences
Mar 31, 2025
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A team of biomedical engineers at the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science working with a team of bio-scientist colleagues from NASA Ames Research Center, both in the U.S., has found that test mice living aboard the International ...
Venus—a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes—may be even more geologically active near its surface than previously thought. New calculations by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis suggest ...
Planetary Sciences
Mar 31, 2025
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One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar—a spinning black hole spraying out highly energetic particles. Come too close to one, and you'd get sucked in by its gravitational pull, or burn up from ...
Astronomy
Mar 31, 2025
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