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Curious Kids: What are the rings around planets made of? Lots of us are familiar with pictures of the planet Saturn and its unmistakable ring. In fact, Saturn doesn't have just one ring — if you look through a telescope, you will see that Saturn actually has at least eight rings. This is called a ring system.
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How NASA's new laser communications mission will work in space "This will be our first foray into understanding, what does it mean to use lasers to communicate and really connect directly to Earth and space users?" Jason Mitchell, Director of SCaN Advanced Communications & Navigation Technology Division at NASA, told ...
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Tiny living Pac-Man robots have learned how to reproduce (CNN) Whenever we're confronted with aspects of science fiction becoming scientific reality, philosophical questions arise. This week, many were asking this one: What is a robot, really? Films and TV shows have offered us myriad archetypes of what ...
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Photos: Atlas 5 rolls out to launch pad for Space Force mission United Launch Alliance rolled an Atlas 5 rocket to its launch pad Friday at Cape Canaveral in preparation for liftoff before dawn Sunday on a mission to carry two U.S. Space Force technology demonstration satellites into orbit. The ...
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Arianespace launches Galileo navigation satellites in final mission before Webb Deployment of Europe's independent Galileo navigation network resumed Saturday night with an on-target launch of two satellites aboard a Soyuz rocket, the final Arianespace mission from French Guiana before the historic liftoff of the James Webb Space ...
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Russia pushes the International Space Station away from '90s US rocket debris — the 2nd space-junk scare this week A chunk of that old rocket, which broke apart two years after the United States launched it into Earth's orbit in 1994, was on track to pass close to the ISS Friday morning. NASA and Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, monitored the chunk throughout Monday, ...
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NASA Astronauts Complete Spacewalk to ISS After Deferring the Trip Due to High-Speed Space Debris On Tuesday, NASA astronauts Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron were supposed to put on their spacesuits and float their way to the ISS for a duration of six and a half hours to replace a faulty antenna. But on Monday night, Mission Control received a " ...
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Geminid Meteor Shower, 2021's Best: See Fireballs In Oceanside The Geminids run from Dec. 4-17 and peak overnight Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 13-14. The best time to see the Geminids is around 2 a.m. the morning of the 14th when the shower's radiant point — the constellation Gemini — is at its highest point in the sky.
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Giant asteroid to fly near Earth this month. Here's how close it will get. A huge asteroid as large as the Eiffel Tower is zipping through space and will make a "near-Earth" approach this month. But don't cancel your holiday plans or call Bruce Willis for help. Experts say the giant space rock, which is about 1,082 feet wide, ...
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Newly discovered Comet Leonard to fly by Earth in once-in-a-lifetime event: Here's how to see it (KTLA) – A comet that was discovered earlier this year is expected to fly by Earth next week on its journey through the solar system, and it will be the only chance you'll ever get to observe the celestial object.
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