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NASA awards $2.9B to SpaceX for Starship lunar lander; Blue Origin team is left out
In a surprise move that was dictated by budget constraints, NASA is for the development of its Starship super-rocket as…
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Going, going … goniometer! First Mode delivers measuring gizmo for Mars mission
The 3-foot-wide contraption that was built in First Mode’s Seattle workshop looks like something from a science-fiction movie, complete with…
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Watch NASA’s mission control track the first flight on Mars
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter is slated to attempt the first-ever powered flight on another world at 3:30AM ET on Monday. The…
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX will build NASA’s lunar lander
NASA picked Elon Musk’s SpaceX to receive $2.9 billion to build a lunar lander as part of the Artemis mission…
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How to celebrate Earth Day 2021
Earth Day Let’s face it, it’s been a long and hard year for the denizens of our planet since…
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NASA’s Io Volcano Observer: Following the Heat and Hunting Clues to Planet Evolution
NASA’s Galileo spacecraft caught Jupiter’s moon Io, the planet’s third-largest moon, undergoing a volcanic eruption. Locked in a perpetual tug…
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‘It’s time’: Jeff Bezos hails Blue Origin’s fiery rehearsal for crewed suborbital spaceflight
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ space venture flew a mannequin into space today during the 15th test flight for its New…
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Please keep Anish Kapoor away from the whitest white paint
Anish Kapoor Anish Kapoor – Researchers at Purdue University say they have created the whitest paint on record. In fact,…
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Ultralight Bosons: Fast-Spinning Black Holes Narrow the Search for Dark Matter Particles
“If you jump onto and then down from a carousel, you can steal energy from the carousel,” says co-author Salvatore…
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Scientists Warn of “Oxygen False Positives” in Search for Signs of Alien Life on Other Planets
By varying the initial inventory of volatile elements in a model of the geochemical evolution of rocky planets, researchers obtained…
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