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Will Private Companies Beat NASA to the Moon? With private companies setting their sights on sending humans to the moon in the near future, it's possible that one could touch down on the lunar surface before NASA astronauts do. But the resulting "public versus private" space race isn't one that NASA feels ...
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A Helicopter for Mars and a Major LightSail Announcement Share. Subscribe. Cookie Policy. Megaphone logo updated.png?ixlib=rails 2.1. Subscribe to Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science. Keep up to date by subscribing to this podcast.. Share A Helicopter for Mars and a Major LightSail ...
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Move Over, Energizer Bunny! NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Just Got Its Nuclear Bunny NASA's next spacecraft on Mars is getting a nuclear battery to do science on the Red Planet. The Mars 2020 rover will soon be fueled using a multi-mission radioisotope thermoelectric generator, which is essentially a battery to keep it warm and productive on ...
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The Moon Is 100 Million Years Older Than We Thought, Apollo Rocks Show A new study of Apollo lunar rocks suggests that the moon is older than anyone believed. The moon, researchers now say, likely formed about 50 million years after the solar system did, which is much earlier than the previous estimate of 150 million years after ...
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This Gassy 'Preteen' Exoplanet With 2 Suns Is Losing Its Atmosphere. But Why? A "preteen" exoplanet, fully grown but still undergoing some changes, was recently discovered orbiting a young star in a binary system, and the find could provide some insight on how planets formed in our own solar system. Scientists at Dartmouth College in ...
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Mars 2020 rover on track for launch next July The launch of NASA's Mars 2020 rover is less than a year way, and the steady pace of work inside the craft's pristine assembly hall in California is keeping the mission on schedule for liftoff from Cape Canaveral next July, despite growing costs, according to ...
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Could There Be Life? This Newfound 'Super-Earth' May Be Habitable Astronomers have found a nearby "super-Earth" exoplanet that may be capable of supporting life as we know it. An international group of astronomers discovered the planet using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) earlier this year in the ...
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'Snowball' Planets Might Be Better Abodes for Life Than We Thought Frozen alien worlds might be capable of supporting a greater diversity and complexity of life than previously thought, a new study suggests. Researchers already knew that life can persist on frigid "snowball" planets, which sport sea ice all the way down to ...
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Feel the Burn! Watch NASA's 2020 Mars Rover Does Bicep Curl (Video) In a minidisplay of robot Olympian power, NASA's next Mars rover easily bicep-curled 88 lbs. (40 kilograms) in a California clean room. A new video shows the Mars 2020 rover flexing its joints as huddling technicians at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...
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Scientists Just Built a Mini-Sun in a Lab That Emits 'Plasma Burps' In order to get a closer look at the sun and study the solar wind, a team of researchers created their own miniature sun in the lab — complete with its own electromagnetic field and ultrahot plasma. Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison constructed ...
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