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Four space tourists return to Earth after a private flight over the poles
Four space tourists who orbited the north and south poles returned to Earth on Friday, splashing down in the Pacific to end their privately funded polar tour.
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Apr 4, 2025
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A mission that could reach Mercury on solar sails alone
Turns out, it's as tough to drop inward into the inner solar system, as it is to head outward. The problem stems from losing momentum from a launch starting point on Earth. It can take missions several years and planetary ...
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Apr 4, 2025
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Honda to test renewable tech in space soon
Honda will partner with US companies to test in orbit a renewable energy technology it hopes to one day deploy on the moon's surface, the Japanese carmaker announced Friday.
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Apr 4, 2025
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Rising odds asteroid that briefly threatened Earth will hit moon
A huge asteroid that was briefly feared to strike Earth now has a nearly 4% chance of smashing into the moon, according to new data from the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Apr 3, 2025
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Students design a mission to Venus on the cheap
Sometimes, the best way to learn how to do something is just to do it. That is especially true if you're learning to do something using a specific methodology. And in some cases, the outcome of your efforts is something that's ...
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Apr 3, 2025
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Video: What are the dangers of going to space? We asked a NASA expert
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Apr 3, 2025
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Solar cells made of moon dust could power future space exploration
The same dirt that clings to astronauts' boots may one day keep their lights on. In a study published in Device, researchers created solar cells made out of simulated moon dust. The cells convert sunlight into energy efficiently, ...
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Apr 3, 2025
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United Launch Alliance and Amazon set first launch for SpaceX Starlink competitor Project Kuiper
A launch date is set for the first batch of what will be thousands of satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper as the company looks to play catch-up with SpaceX and its Starlink internet constellation.
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Apr 2, 2025
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Existing international law can help secure peace and security in outer space, study shows
World leaders should look to existing international law on the use of force to address the threat of space becoming ever more militarized, a new study shows. The research is published in the Leiden Journal of International ...
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Apr 2, 2025
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How space law aims to regulate 'space junk' and protect Earth
While life on Earth has been dramatic enough lately, there's also been an unusual amount of news from space in the early months of 2025. So far, debris from SpaceX and Blue Origin rockets has landed in locations including ...
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Apr 2, 2025
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Miso made in space tastes nuttier, researchers find
Miso is a traditional Japanese condiment made by fermenting cooked soybeans and salt. In a study published in iScience, researchers successfully made miso on the International Space Station (ISS). They found that the miso ...
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Apr 2, 2025
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Modeling lunar in-situ resource utilization can help plan future prototypes
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 ...
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Apr 1, 2025
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How to engineer microbes to enable us to live on Mars
A field known as synthetic biology has become one of the most highly anticipated in science. Its outputs range from golden rice, which is genetically engineered to provide vitamin A, to advances stemming from the Human Genome ...
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Apr 1, 2025
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Fixing cracks in space bricks with bacteria
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed a bacteria-based technique to repair bricks that can be used to build lunar habitats if they get damaged in the moon's harsh environment.
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Apr 1, 2025
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FAA closes investigation into Blue Origin New Glenn booster failure
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.
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Apr 1, 2025
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Bitcoin investor buys an entire SpaceX flight for the ultimate polar adventure
A bitcoin investor who bought a SpaceX flight for himself and three polar explorers blasted off Monday night on the first rocket ride to carry people over the North and South poles.
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Apr 1, 2025
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NASA's newly returned astronauts say they would fly on Boeing's Starliner capsule again
NASA's celebrity astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said Monday that they hold themselves partly responsible for what went wrong on their space sprint-turned-marathon and would fly on Boeing's Starliner again.
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Mar 31, 2025
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NASA's dust shield successfully repels lunar regolith on moon
NASA's Electrodynamic Dust Shield (EDS) successfully demonstrated its ability to remove regolith, or lunar dust and dirt, from its various surfaces on the moon during Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1, which concluded ...
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Mar 31, 2025
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Femur bone density loss in mice aboard the ISS sheds light on space travel challenges
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 ...
SpaceX to launch private astronauts on first crewed polar orbit
SpaceX is set to launch the first human spaceflight directly over Earth's polar regions on Monday—a days-long, privately funded orbital mission involving four astronauts.
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Mar 31, 2025
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