A US federal judge on Thursday ruled against Blue Origin brought by Jeff Bezos' company in a bid to overturn a NASA contract awarded to rival SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, to build the next craft for Moon landings.
Space Exploration
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Four years ago, I traveled around America, visiting historical archives. I was looking for documents that might reveal the hidden history of climate change—and in particular, when the major coal, oil and gas companies became ...
Environment
Oct 28, 2021
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On 16 December 2020 the Chang'e-5 mission, China's first sample return mission to the Moon, successfully delivered to Earth nearly two kilograms of rocky fragments and dust from our celestial companion. Chang'e-5 landed ...
Space Exploration
Sep 24, 2021
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Finding and collecting the best lunar samples will be a major task for the next astronauts on the moon. ESA's Pangaea training campaign launches today to equip astronauts with a geologist's eye on the moon—humanity's next ...
Space Exploration
Sep 6, 2021
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SpaceIL, the nonprofit Israeli initiative whose spacecraft crashed on the moon two years ago, said Sunday that it has secured $70 million in funding to make a second attempt at a lunar landing.
Space Exploration
Jul 12, 2021
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When the first baby is born off-Earth, it will be a milestone as momentous as humanity's first steps out of Africa. Such a birth would mark the beginning of a multi–planet civilization for the human species.
Space Exploration
May 21, 2021
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The ability to identify misinformation only benefits people who have some skepticism toward social media, according to a new study from Washington State University.
Social Sciences
Mar 5, 2021
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With its impeccable landing on Thursday, NASA's Perseverance became the fifth rover to reach Mars—so when can we finally expect the long-held goal of a crewed expedition to materialize?
Space Exploration
Feb 20, 2021
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An international research team led by the University of Bern has discovered an exotic binary system composed of two young planet-like objects, orbiting around each other from a very large distance. Although these objects ...
Astronomy
Dec 16, 2020
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Chinese ground crews are standing by for the landing of the first new samples of rocks and soil from the moon in more than 40 years.
Space Exploration
Dec 16, 2020
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