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New measurements show moon has hazardous radiation levels
Future moon explorers will be bombarded with two to three times more radiation than astronauts aboard the International Space Station, a health hazard that will require thick-walled shelters for protection, scientists reported ...
Space Exploration
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Back to Venus: Upstart company wants to beat NASA in search for life
Can a small American aerospace company get to Venus before NASA returns to our superheated planetary neighbor?
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US probe to touch down on asteroid Bennu on October 20
After a four-year journey, NASA's robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx will descend to asteroid Bennu's boulder-strewn surface on October 20, touching down for a few seconds to collect rock and dust samples, the agency said Thursday.
Space Exploration
Sep 25, 2020
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Air Force, SpaceX mum about sky-high rocket costs
Five years ago, Elon Musk, the multibillionaire CEO of the SpaceX rocket company, smashed his way into the business of launching U.S. military and intelligence satellites, a lucrative market that had been cornered for nearly ...
Space Exploration
Sep 24, 2020
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A minuscule spacecraft joins a pilot's epic journey to fly from pole to pole
On November 16, 2019, pilot and author Robert DeLaurentis took off on an ambitious adventure. Setting out from San Diego county's Gillespie Field, he banked toward Grand Prairie, Texas on the first leg of a pole to pole expedition. ...
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Sep 24, 2020
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Faint orbital debris that threatens satellites not being monitored closely enough, warn astronomers
University of Warwick astronomers are warning that orbital debris posing a threat to operational satellites is not being monitored closely enough, as they publish a new survey finding that over 75% of the orbital debris they ...
Space Exploration
Sep 24, 2020
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NASA chief warns Congress about Chinese space station
NASA chief Jim Bridenstine told lawmakers Wednesday it was crucial for the US to maintain a presence in Earth's orbit after the International Space Station is decommissioned so that China does not gain a strategic advantage.
Space Exploration
Sep 24, 2020
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Could life exist deep underground on Mars?
Recent science missions and results are bringing the search for life closer to home, and scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) and the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) may have figured ...
Space Exploration
Sep 23, 2020
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School bus-size asteroid to safely zoom past Earth
A small near-Earth asteroid (or NEA) will briefly visit Earth's neighborhood on Thursday, Sept. 24, zooming past at a distance of about 13,000 miles (22,000 kilometers) above our planet's surface. The asteroid will make its ...
Space Exploration
Sep 23, 2020
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MoonRanger will search for water at moon's south pole
MoonRanger, a small robotic rover being developed by Carnegie Mellon University and its spinoff Astrobotic, has completed its preliminary design review in preparation for a 2022 mission to search for signs of water at the ...
Space Exploration
Sep 23, 2020
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Space nematodes: A giant leap for interplanetary agriculture
In a successful return-to-space mission, research study results indicate that beneficial insect-killing nematodes (small round worms) can be used in the future for natural control of insect pests when humans are growing crops ...
Space Exploration
Sep 23, 2020
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ISS moves to avoid space debris
Astronauts on the International Space Station carried out an "avoidance maneuver" Tuesday to ensure they would not be hit by a piece of debris, said US space agency NASA, urging better management of objects in Earth's orbit.
Space Exploration
Sep 23, 2020
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NASA's new Mars rover will use X-rays to hunt fossils
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has a challenging road ahead: After having to make it through the harrowing entry, descent, and landing phase of the mission on Feb. 18, 2021, it will begin searching for traces of microscopic ...
Space Exploration
Sep 22, 2020
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Can ripples on the sun help predict solar flares?
Solar flares are violent explosions on the sun that fling out high-energy charged particles, sometimes toward Earth, where they disrupt communications and endanger satellites and astronauts.
Astronomy
Sep 22, 2020
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JPL meets unique challenge, delivers radar hardware for Jupiter mission
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory met a significant milestone recently by delivering key elements of an ice-penetrating radar instrument for an ESA (European Space Agency) mission to explore Jupiter and its three ...
Space Exploration
Sep 22, 2020
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx to asteroid Bennu: 'You've got a little Vesta on you'
In an interplanetary faux pas, it appears some pieces of asteroid Vesta ended up on asteroid Bennu, according to observations from NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The new result sheds light on the intricate orbital dance of ...
Astronomy
Sep 22, 2020
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NASA technology enables precision landing without a pilot
Some of the most interesting places to study in our solar system are found in the most inhospitable environments—but landing on any planetary body is already a risky proposition. With NASA planning robotic and crewed missions ...
Space Exploration
Sep 22, 2020
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NASA plans for return to Moon to cost $28 billion
NASA on Monday revealed its latest plan to return astronauts to the Moon in 2024, and estimated the cost of meeting that deadline at $28 billion, $16 billion of which would be spent on the lunar landing module.
Space Exploration
Sep 22, 2020
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Parker Solar Probe, Akatsuki and Earth-bound observers give rare top-to surface glimpse of Venus
Observations of Venus by NASA's Parker Solar Probe, JAXA's Akatsuki mission and astronomers around the world have given a rare cloud-top-to-surface glimpse of the Earth's neighboring planet. The results are being presented ...
Space Exploration
Sep 21, 2020
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NASA's IRIS spots nanojets: Shining light on heating the solar corona
In a paper published today in Nature Astronomy, researchers report the first ever clear images of nanojets—bright thin lights that travel perpendicular to the magnetic structures in the solar atmosphere, called the corona—in ...
Astronomy
Sep 21, 2020
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