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Pulverizing dangerous asteroids, building an observatory on the moon and more: 6 wild ideas catch NASA's eye Six early-stage space tech ideas have snagged funding from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, which seeks to encourage the development of futuristic concepts that could revolutionize spaceflight and exploration.
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Earth's core seems to be surrounded by enigmatic layer, geologists say For decades, scientists have debated the nature and origin of what some experts consider the most anomalous and enigmatic layer of Earth's deep interior: the boundary between its scorching hot liquid outer core and the solid mantle that surrounds it.
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'Snowball Earth' might have been slushball Researchers found evidence that Earth was not completely frozen solid during the Marinoan ice age 635 million years ago. Shallow, mid-latitude seas remained ice free, perhaps helping life persist. Credit: Michael Miller.
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Lunar laws could protect the moon from humanity This new nonprofit organization will go beyond advocating for protecting off-world heritage sites and contemplate the ethics around some activities in space that are not fully covered in existing international law. Buzz Aldrin Apollo ...
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First US lunar rover headed to the moon and college students made it On May 4, students from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania will be sending their rover into space. It's called Iris, and it will ride to the lunar surface on the Peregrine lander powered by a United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur ...
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Uranus is "boring" again, JWST shows. Here's why. As seen up-close in 1986 by Voyager 2 (left) and from far away in 2023 by JWST (right), Uranus has returned to being a relatively featureless, monochromatic world. However, it wasn't like this at all near its 2007 equinox, showcasing the need for ...
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Meet the cosmic rock stars headed for the moon CNN — I was briefly transfixed by April's full moon as it peeped out of London's clouds on Wednesday night — it was a reminder of how the silvery orb shapes the course of life on Earth. Medieval moon watchers were similarly captivated by our celestial ...
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope revealing new details of the early universe But astrophysicist Brant Robertson, who helped make the discovery as part of the JADES team, said that he doesn't expect the current record will hold for long. The telescope is so powerful that it's expected to find even earlier galaxies, he told 60 ...
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Small ears, frizzy hair and dry ear wax — the genetics of mammoths Researchers on Friday said they had analyzed the genomes of 23 woolly mammoths — including 16 newly sequenced ones — based on remains preserved in Siberian permafrost. They then compared them to the genomes of 28 modern-day Asian and African elephants.
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250-foot asteroid speeding towards Earth; NASA clocks terror rock at 38102 kmph Occasionally, asteroids collide with other celestial objects in space, including planets and moons. The impact can have devastating effect, as evidenced by the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago on the Earth. Several theories say that the ...
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