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NASA wants to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid, but don't worry. Earth isn't at risk. The NASA DART asteroid mission launches Nov. 24 and will crash into the moonlet of asteroid Didymos in 2022. An artist's depiction of the DART spacecraft approaching the Didymos system. (Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben).
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Astra reaches orbit for 1st time on test flight for US military Astra's Launch Vehicle 0007 (LV0007) lifts off on a test flight from the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Alaska on Nov. 20, 2021. (Image credit: Footage provided by NASASpaceflight LLC and Astra Space Inc.).
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Watch Ingenuity Mars helicopter soar in amazing new videos from Perseverance rover Ingenuity performed its 13th Martian flight on Sept. 4, cruising through the rugged "Séítah" region of the Red Planet's Jezero Crater on a scouting mission for its robotic companion, NASA's Perseverance rover.
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If Planet B exists, what might it be like? Natalie Batalha, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has watched the field of exoplanet science grow and change since those initial discoveries. Batalha served as the co-investigator and mission scientist on ...
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Watch the entire Beaver Moon lunar eclipse in 1 minute time-lapse An incredible timelapse video from Los Angeles captures the Beaver Moon during its dramatic partial eclipse Friday (Nov. 19). Taken from the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, the video shows the moon gradually growing darker and then at its peak ...
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Meet LICIACube, the small but mighty spacecraft that will watch NASA's epic DART asteroid crash A small satellite will watch its robotic colleague smash into an asteroid, tracking the remarkable encounter and sending the footage back to Earth. NASA and international agencies are coming together in the name of planetary ...
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Visualizations show the extensive cloud of debris Russia's anti-satellite test created Satellite trackers have been working overtime to figure out just how much dangerous debris Russia created when it destroyed one of its own satellites early Monday — and the picture they've painted looks bleak. Multiple visual simulations of Russia's ...
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NASA's DART mission has a sequel. How Europe's HERA will explore an asteroid impact aftermath. The European Hera mission will follow NASA's DART asteroid-deflecting spacecraft to the binary space rock Didymos and detail the aftermath of DART's collision with the smaller of the two asteroids, Dimorphos. It will even attempt to peek inside the ...
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NASA Astronaut Jessica Watkins Becomes the First Black Woman to Join International Space Station Crew Joined by NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Robert Hines, and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, Watkins will complete a six-month science mission in the ISS's microgravity laboratory and serve as the team's mission specialist. A ...
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NASA seeks ideas for a nuclear reactor on the moon If anyone has a good idea on how to put a nuclear fission power plant on the moon, the U.S. government wants to hear about it. NASA and the nation's top federal nuclear research lab on Friday put out a request for proposals for a fission surface power ...
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