Video: Intense 'Beyond' mission for Luca
Italian ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano will return to Earth 6 February 2020, following his second long-duration mission on the International Space Station (ISS).
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2017 meteor was a 'grazing fireball'
A team of researchers at Curtin University in Australia reports that a meteor that streaked across the Australian sky back in 2017 was a rare "grazing fireball." The group has written a paper describing their observations ...
Astronaut Luca feeling the force, to advance rover control
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano has made robotics history, reaching out from the International Space Station in orbit around Earth at 8 km/s, to control an Earth-based rover, equipped with an advanced gripper possessing the ...
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Dec 02, 2019
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Dust from a giant asteroid crash caused an ancient ice age
About 466 million years ago, long before the age of the dinosaurs, the Earth froze. The seas began to ice over at the Earth's poles, and the new range of temperatures around the planet set the stage for a boom of new species ...
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Sep 18, 2019
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For the first time, astronomers catch asteroid in the act of changing color
Last December, scientists discovered an "active" asteroid within the asteroid belt, sandwiched between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The space rock, designated by astronomers as 6478 Gault, appeared to be leaving two trails ...
Astronomy
Aug 30, 2019
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Space mining kits blast off for tests in orbit
Astronauts are to test the world's first space mining devices, in an advance that could open up a new frontier in exploring the universe.
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Jul 29, 2019
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Harnessing the power of microbes for mining in space
For centuries, people have done the hard work of mining useful minerals and metals from solid rock. Then, scientists learned how to harness the power of tiny microbes to do some of this labor. This process, called biomining, ...
Space Exploration
Jul 24, 2019
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Image: Martian meteorite on Earth calibrates camera bound for Mars
Exhibit 0102.226 may look like just a rock, but this dark and patchy mass is actually a piece of Mars, ejected when an asteroid or comet struck the Red Planet and sent chunks flying towards Earth.
Space Exploration
Jul 12, 2019
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The space rock that hit the moon at 61,000 kilometers an hour
Observers watching January's total eclipse of the Moon saw a rare event, a short-lived flash as a meteorite hit the lunar surface. Spanish astronomers now think the space rock collided with the Moon at 61,000 kilometres an ...
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Apr 30, 2019
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What if an asteroid was about to hit Earth? Scientists ponder question
Here's a hypothetical: a telescope detects an asteroid between 100 and 300 meters in diameter racing through our solar system at 14 kilometers per second, 57 million kilometers from Earth.
Space Exploration
Apr 30, 2019
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