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Private habitats, not just the International Space Station, may be needed to get astronauts to Mars: report Private space stations may end up being a key stepping stone on humanity's path to Mars. NASA aims to put astronauts on the moon in this decade and on the Red Planet in the 2030s. To help make these ambitious goals a reality, the agency is performing ...
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Russian anti-satellite test has made spacewalks riskier for astronauts Space is more dangerous than ever after Russia's recent anti-satellite (ASAT) test. On Tuesday (Nov. 30), two NASA astronauts were scheduled to conduct a spacewalk and replace a faulty, 21-year-old antenna system. However, a space debris warning was ...
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This pair of merging black holes is the closest to Earth we've ever found Close-up view of the two bright galactic nuclei, each housing a supermassive black hole, in NGC 7727, a galaxy located 89 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Aquarius. (Image credit: ESO/Voggel et al.).
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Nearby habitable planets at Alpha Centauri? This is a simulated view of the Alpha Centauri system, as seen through the diffracted pupil lens of TOLIMAN. The new space telescope will search for nearby habitable planets in the nearest star system to our sun. Image via Peter Tuthill/ University of ...
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Rain fell at Greenland's summit this year for the first time. It's going to happen more often, study says The Arctic is expected to experience more rain than snow some time between 2060 and 2070, marking a major transition in its precipitation patterns as the climate crisis jacks up temperatures in the region, according to the study published on Tuesday in the ...
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope on track for Dec. 22 launch The $9.8 billion Webb has experienced years of technical delays, funding issues and a pandemic. And it suffered another delay, albeit a slight one, earlier this month during its final preparations for launch.
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NASA calls off spacewalk due to possible risk from space debris A planned spacewalk outside the International Space Station by astronauts Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron was called off early Tuesday after NASA received an overnight warning about possibly threatening space debris. The station's seven-member crew was ...
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NASA wants to put a nuclear power plant on the moon by 2030 — and you can help The proposed reactor must be a uranium-powered fission reactor — that is, an apparatus that can split heavy atomic nuclei into lighter nuclei, releasing energy as a byproduct. (Nuclear fusion, on the other hand, involves combining two or more lighter atoms ...
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Are water plumes spraying from Europa? NASA's Europa Clipper is on the case This triptych image shows views of Jupiter's moon Europa as taken by various NASA spacecraft, including Voyager 1, Voyager 2 and Galileo. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Finding plumes at Europa is an exciting prospect, but scientists warn it'll be tricky, ...
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Giant comet was active way farther from the sun than expected, scientists confirm One of the largest comets ever discovered was active long before scientists had expected, according to NASA's industrious planet-hunting telescope. Comets are made up of dust and ice left over from the early days of the solar system.
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