Bricks have been 3-D printed out of simulated moondust using concentrated sunlight – proving in principle that future lunar colonists could one day use the same approach to build settlements on the moon.
Space Exploration
May 4, 2017
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Russia launched checks Tuesday after its space chief said an air leak on the International Space Station last week could have been deliberate sabotage.
Space Exploration
Sep 4, 2018
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Japan has revealed ambitious plans to put an astronaut on the Moon around 2030 in new proposals from the country's space agency.
Space Exploration
Jun 30, 2017
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Mankind's first look at conditions on a "super-Earth" 50 light years away is expected in coming weeks via the James Webb Space Telescope, and NASA is bracing to see the stuff of nightmares.
Astronomy
Jun 1, 2022
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This Earth Day, Tuesday, April 22, three former NASA astronauts will present new evidence that our planet has experienced many more large-scale asteroid impacts over the past decade than previously thought… three to ten times ...
Space Exploration
Apr 17, 2014
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The reason Pluto lost its planet status is not valid, according to new research from the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
Space Exploration
Sep 7, 2018
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Call it whatever you like—a blue red moon, a purple moon, a blood moon—but the moon will be a special sight on Jan. 31.
Space Exploration
Jan 3, 2018
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A mysterious large mass of material has been discovered beneath the largest crater in our solar system—the Moon's South Pole-Aitken basin—and may contain metal from the asteroid that crashed into the Moon and formed the crater, ...
Space Exploration
Jun 10, 2019
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Many astronomers and members of the public in Britain will be getting up early on the morning of 6 June, so they can see the final Transit of Venus of the 21st century. The Transit, when Venus passes directly between the ...
Space Exploration
May 29, 2012
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With the help of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a German-led group of astronomers have observed the intriguing characteristics of an unusual type of object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter: two asteroids ...
Space Exploration
Sep 20, 2017
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