Space travel is clearly for astronauts and the super rich, but NASA has found a way the rest of us can claim our spot among the cosmos.
Space Exploration
Jun 15, 2022
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NASA is shooting for next Friday—Christmas Eve—to launch its newest space telescope.
Space Exploration
Dec 17, 2021
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The search for life beyond Earth typically focuses on first looking for water, the basis for life as we know it. Whether the water is a gas, liquid, or solid, its presence and composition can tell researchers a lot about ...
Space Exploration
Jun 02, 2021
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Space tourism company Virgin Galactic on Monday announced a partnership with engine-maker Rolls-Royce to build a supersonic commercial airplane that flies at three times the speed of sound.
Space Exploration
Aug 03, 2020
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China has moved a rocket into position to launch a rover to Mars in one of three upcoming missions to the red planet, one from the U.S. and another by the United Arab Emirates.
Space Exploration
Jul 17, 2020
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Psyche, the NASA mission to explore a metal-rock asteroid of the same name, recently passed a crucial milestone that brings it closer to its August 2022 launch date. Now the mission is moving from planning and designing to ...
Space Exploration
Jul 07, 2020
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is just over a month from its July 20 targeted launch date. The rover's astrobiology mission will seek signs of past microscopic life on Mars, explore the geology of the Jezero Crater landing ...
Space Exploration
Jun 18, 2020
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Boeing's Starliner crew capsule finally has a launch date for its first test flight to the International Space Station.
Space Exploration
Dec 12, 2019
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Researchers have announced a prototype for a laser at the heart of the first space-based gravitational wave observatory, known as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission. The team's new laser nearly meets the ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 18, 2019
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The Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, has successfully passed the final analysis review for its launch on a Soyuz rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
Space Exploration
Jul 30, 2019
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