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| Jun 4, 2026 | План NASA по лунной базе: 25 запусков, флот роверов и дроны до 2029 года. Разбираем программу Moonbase по полочкам | Фото с зонда Галилео 4 июня 1998г, ист: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA00342
В апреле 2026 года четыре астронавта впервые с 1972 года долетели до Луны и вернулись живыми. Через несколько недель после этого NASA провело пресс‑конференцию... |
| Jan 20, 2026 | Mars has never looked so serene in this gorgeous image from a NASA rover | Nearly 14 years ago, NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars for a mission to explore the red planet and discover if it had an environment capable of supporting microbial life.
Over the years, the rover has also been beaming back striking ima... |
| Sep 14, 2024 | Современные детекторы рентгеновского излучения | Введение
Рентгеновский снимок руки Альберта фон Кёлликера, сделанный Вильгельмом Рентгеном 23 января 1896 года. Источник
Вильгельм Рентген открыл рентгеновское излучение 8 ноября 1895 года, когда проводил эксперименты с катодными лучами в в... |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Как создать Python-приложение, которое предупредит о приближении астероида | Привет, Хабр! В статье я постарался показать, как объединить космос и технологии в одном приложении, которое через API оповестит пользователей по SMS о приближающемся к Земле астероиде. Подробности, как всегда, под катом.NASA OpenAPI
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| Mar 23, 2024 | Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin passes key pee test in its $172M contract with NASA to build a brand new space station | Science Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin passes key pee test in its $172M contract with NASA to build a brand new space station
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| Mar 11, 2024 | 'Holes' in Earth's magnetic field could cause extra northern lights this month. Here's how to spot them. | Science 'Holes' in Earth's magnetic field could cause extra northern lights this month. Here's how to spot them.
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2024-03-11T20:17:11Z
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| Mar 7, 2024 | The Voyager spacecraft will probably last a billion years, says a scientist on the mission for nearly 5 decades | Science The Voyager spacecraft will probably last a billion years, says a scientist on the mission for nearly 5 decades
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2024-03-06T23:55:38Z
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| Feb 22, 2024 | NASA will pay 4 health-conscious 'astronaut-like' people to live inside a Mars simulation for 378 days. See if you qualify. | Science NASA will pay 4 health-conscious 'astronaut-like' people to live inside a Mars simulation for 378 days. See if you qualify.
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
2024-02-22T17:33:59Z
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| Oct 31, 2023 | I meticulously schedule the world's most powerful space telescope, the James Webb, so we can capture the cosmos in ways we've never seen before | Science I meticulously schedule the world's most powerful space telescope, the James Webb, so we can capture the cosmos in ways we've never seen before
Maiya Focht
2023-10-31T15:49:05Z
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| Sep 8, 2023 | NASA spent billions on its SLS mega-rocket to take humans to the moon. It finally admitted it is 'unaffordable.' | Science NASA spent billions on its SLS mega-rocket to take humans to the moon. It finally admitted it is 'unaffordable.'
Marianne Guenot
2023-09-08T12:25:08Z
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| Sep 2, 2023 | Russia dominated the first space race, but now it can't even land on the moon. Photos show the US and China are way ahead. | NASA's Space Launch System (left) is its new moon rocket. China's Yutu 2 rover (middle) explores the far side of the moon. Russia's Luna-25 lander just crashed (right). NASA/Steve Seipel; China National Space Administration; ... |
| Apr 28, 2023 | Voyager 2 has been in space for 45 years. NASA just found a way to keep it alive for another 3, despite it being 12 billion miles from Earth. | This artist's drawing shows one of the Voyager probes. NASA
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NASA has hacked a backup source of power to keep Voyager 2 working.
The switch should keep the probe, which launched in 1977, alive for another three years.
Togethe... |
| Apr 19, 2023 | Mysterious glowing 'SpaceX spirals' in the night sky are linked to rocket launches | In this photo provided by Christopher Hayden, a light baby blue spiral appears amid the aurora for a few minutes in the Alaska skies near Fairbanks, on April 15, 2023. Christopher Hayden via AP
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Photos and video show a mysterious,... |
| Apr 3, 2023 | NASA has flown 24 white American men to the moon. Now it's finally sending a woman, a Black astronaut, and a Canadian. | The crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission (left to right): NASA astronauts Christina Hammock Koch, Reid Wiseman (seated), Victor Glover, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen. NASA
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NASA revealed the astronauts of its firs... |
| Mar 30, 2023 | Boeing delays Starliner's first astronaut launch by 3 months because of parachutes and paperwork | The Starliner spacecraft atop an Atlas V rocket in Florida in 2022. NASA/Kim Shiflett
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Boeing has postponed the launch of its spaceship taxi, Starliner, until at least July.
A NASA manager said the data from Starliner's parac... |
| Mar 29, 2023 | Giant 'holes' dozens of times the size of our planet are appearing on the sun. Here's how they could affect Earth. | A triangular hole appeared in the sun earlier this week. Solar winds from it could hit Earth by Friday. Insider
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Two huge coronal holes, dozen of times the size of the Earth, have appeared on the sun.
These have been spewing fast ... |
| Jan 31, 2023 | The Green Comet will be closest to earth on Feb 1. Here's the science behind its ghoulish glow. | Comet ZTF, as photographed on January 18, 2023. Dan Bartlett
A green comet is whizzing past the earth for the first time since the ice age.
The comet's head shines green, while its tail shines white.
Scientists found out why it glows t... |
| Jan 21, 2023 | I pilot NASA's first and only Mars helicopter. My job can be like a video game, but not the kind with a joystick. | Håvard Grip stands in front of a life-size model of the Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity helicopter (upper left) at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. Morgan McFall-Johnsen/Insider
Håvard Grip pilots NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, whi... |
| Dec 27, 2022 | On Pluto you could throw a baseball over the Great Pyramid of Giza, a scientist's animation reveals | Tourists visit the Pyramid of Khufu, the largest of the Great Pyramids of Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters
An astronomer's animation reveals how far the average person could throw a ball on different w... |
| Nov 30, 2022 | China and NASA are racing to the moon. Side-by-side photos hint NASA has the edge, but China's secrecy makes the race hard to call. | China's Shenzhou 15 mission, left, lifted off on Tuesday, one week after NASA launched its Artemis I mission to the moon, right. CNS/AFP/Getty Images; NASA/Joel Kowsky
China and NASA are racing toward the first human moon landing in 50... |
| Nov 23, 2022 | Photos from NASA's Artemis mission zipping past the moon reveal a view no astronaut has seen firsthand in 50 years | The Earth sets from the far side of the moon just beyond the Orion spacecraft in this video taken on the sixth day of the Artemis I mission. NASA
NASA's Orion spaceship is hurtling around the moon for the first time, in the Artemis I m... |
| Nov 16, 2022 | Photos show how NASA built a $50 billion mega-rocket and spaceship to return astronauts to the moon | Left: A test of an Orion spaceship prototype in 2019. Right: Technicians assemble the Space Launch System rocket in 2021. NASA/Tony Gray and Kevin O’Connell/Cory Huston/Insider annotations
NASA's Space Launch System rocket lifted off e... |
| Nov 12, 2022 | NASA left its $50 billion moon rocket exposed to Hurricane Nicole's powerful winds | The SLS rocket stands at Launch Pad 39B, on November 11, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA/Joel Kowsky
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NASA left its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on the launchpad during Hurricane Nicole.
The rocket sustai... |
| Nov 5, 2022 | Astronauts' stunning photos from the International Space Station show Earth's triumphs and tragedies in 2022 | Lake Urmia in northwest Iran, once one of the biggest saltwater lakes in the world, on July 30, 2022. NASA
Astronauts on the International Space Station share stunning images of Earth from 250 miles up.
From sunsets and moonrises to spewing... |
| Oct 6, 2022 | NASA and SpaceX launch first Native American woman into space. She brought a dream catcher her mother gave her on the mission. | Nicole Aunapu Mann gives thumbs up during a Crew Dragon cockpit training session at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. SpaceX
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NASA and SpaceX just launched the first Native American woman into space: astronaut Nicole M... |
| Oct 2, 2022 | Hurricane Ian as it happened: Recovery efforts begin in Florida and the Carolinas | News Hurricane Ian as it happened: Recovery efforts begin in Florida and the Carolinas
Morgan McFall-Johnsen, Kimberly Leonard, Azmi Haroun, Lloyd Lee, Marianne Guenot, Rebecca Cohen, Natalie Musumeci, Erin Snodgrass, Katherine Tangalakis-L... |
| Sep 27, 2022 | NASA is evacuating its prized moon rocket from its Florida launchpad as Hurricane Ian approaches | Teams prepare a crawler-transporter to roll NASA's Space Launch System rocket away from Launchpad 39B back to the Vehicle Assembly Building, on September 24, 2022. NASA/Joel Kowsky
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| Sep 27, 2022 | NASA just smashed a spaceship into an asteroid on purpose. Here are 13 facts about the mission and why it may just help save humanity one day. | Illustration of DART approaching Dimorphos. NASA/Johns Hopkins APL
NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid, in a first-of-its-kind experiment in planetary defense. The space agency wants to see whether it's a viable method for defle... |
| Sep 24, 2022 | See how NASA's new lunar mega-rocket sizes up to past and future astronaut launch systems | Redeem now
NASA built a new mega-rocket, the Space Launch System, to return astronauts to the moon.
SLS, which stands taller than the Statue of Liberty, is set to launch for the first time Tuesday.
See how SLS compares to other rockets past... |
| Sep 13, 2022 | NASA says it will try to launch its massive moon rocket again in late September
Hydrogen fuel woes interrupted the second launch attempt
1 in 3 chance of a scrub on any given day | NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B, on August 29, 2022. NASA/Joel Kowsky
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NASA officials said the next attempt to launch Artemis I will ... |
| Aug 30, 2022 | NASA sets new date for Artemis I launch to the moon after delays due to engine issues | NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B as preparations for launch continue on August 25, 2022. NASA/Joel Kowsky
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The first launch of NASA's Sp... |
| Aug 28, 2022 | FAA employees in a tiny room in Virginia are in charge of clearing airspace so rockets like Artemis I can launch — see inside | The Artemis I rocket is scheduled to launch on August 29. Taylor Rains/Insider, NASA
NASA is on track to launch its highly-anticipated Artemis I rocket for the first time on August 29.
The launch requires a chunk of airspace to be closed, m... |
| Aug 27, 2022 | The Artemis I mission launches NASA's return to the moon, 50 years after the last moonwalk. Astronauts explain why it took so long. | The Space Launch System rocket arrives at the launchpad in Florida, on August 17, 2022. NASA/Joel Kowsky
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NASA is about to launch its new Space Launch System toward the moon for the first time.
The rocket is designed to return ast... |
| Jul 13, 2022 | NASA 2022 Photographer of the Year Winners Confirmed! Here are Their Captured Images | Griffin Davis , Tech Times 13 July 2022, 02:07 pm
NASA's 2022 Photographer of the Year winners have been confirmed. This is the fourth photo competition of the international space agency.
But, unlike other competitions where the public... |
| Dec 15, 2021 | NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will spend its first year looking for primordial galaxies, gold-forging explosions, and habitable planets | An artist's conception of the James Webb Space Telescope. NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez
NASA is set to launch the James Webb Space Telescope — the world's most powerful space observatory.
Webb's first year will inc... |
| Oct 28, 2021 | SpaceX launching 4th astronaut crew to ISS for NASA on Halloween - watch it live | The Crew-3 astronauts, left to right: ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer and NASA astronauts Thomas Marshburn, Raja Chari, and Kayla Barron.
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SpaceX plans to launch its fourth NASA astronaut crew to the International Space Station on Sunda... |
| Oct 27, 2021 | A toilet tube on SpaceX's Crew Dragon spaceship broke, sprayed pee during first tourist flight | The Crew Dragon Endeavour approaches the International Space Station with astronauts on board, April 24, 2021.
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SpaceX's Crew Dragon spaceship experienced a toilet issue while flying its first tourists in orbit.
A tube came loose a... |
| Oct 9, 2021 | Images from NASA's Perseverance rover reveal that mysterious floods dragged boulders across Mars | NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie on September 10, 2021.
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NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars snapped photos of cliffs that show signs of ancient flash floods.
The first study of Perseverance's dat... |
| Oct 7, 2021 | NASA to launch spacecraft to explore swarms of ancient 'fossil' asteroids that surround Jupiter | An illustration showing the Lucy spacecraft passing one of the Trojan Asteroids near Jupiter.
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Next week, NASA plans to launch its Lucy probe to the Trojan asteroids that surround Jupiter.
The Trojans are like fo... |
| Sep 22, 2021 | Cracks on the Space Station are a 'fairly serious issue,' a former NASA astronaut says | The International Space Station, photographed by Expedition 56 crew members from a Soyuz spacecraft.
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Former NASA astronaut Bill Shepherd gave the US Congress new details about cracks on the space station.
About half a dozen c... |
| Sep 10, 2021 | TAKE A LOOK | How first civilians trained for Wednesday’s SpaceX 3-day spaceflight | The Crew-2 members on a parabolic flight that simulates zero gravity. Left to right: Chris Sembroski, Hayley Arceneaux, Jared Isaacman, and Sian Proctor.
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SpaceX is launching its first spaceship full of civilians into... |
| Sep 6, 2021 | Cambridge alumna to fly to the International Space Station on her first-ever spaceflight | Cambridge alumna to fly to the International Space Station on her first-ever spaceflight
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University of Cambridge alumna and NASA astronaut Kayla Barron will experience her first spaceflight when she serves as a mission specialist... |
| Sep 1, 2021 | 5 Interior Design Ideas for Inexpensive Art—From Wall Rugs to Framed Memories | TURNS OUT you can improve the way you feel by lazily staring at nicely decorated walls. “Incorporating art and color into your home design will have a positive impact on your mood and overall health,” said Jessica Shaw of New York’s Turett ... |
| Jul 28, 2021 | Boeing set to try to fly spaceship to space station for NASA on Friday, in second attempt | A computer rendering of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spaceship orbiting Earth.
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Boeing is launching its Starliner spaceship to the International Space Station for NASA on Friday.
Starliner is designed to fly astronauts, but first i... |
| Jul 17, 2021 | 30 years of stunning photos show why NASA fought so hard to save the Hubble telescope | Galaxy Messier 94, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope, is rapidly forming new stars in the bright ring surrounding it.
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NASA has finally fixed the Hubble Space Telescope after a mysterious glitch took it offline more than a month ago.... |
| Jun 27, 2021 | Even the Hubble Space Telescope's backup computer is glitching - raising questions about what's gone wrong | The Hubble Space Telescope in orbit above Earth.
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NASA has been troubleshooting a computer error on the Hubble Space Telescope for 12 days.
After three failed attempts to fix Hubble, NASA determined the computer had a processing issue.
... |
| Jun 23, 2021 | 10 Things in Politics: Klobuchar's elite club of donors | Redeem now
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| May 14, 2021 | Earth's stratosphere has been shrinking for 40 years. That could one day screw with orbiting satellites. | A band of subtropical stratocumulus clouds as seen from space. Aleksandar Georgiev/Getty Images
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Earth's stratosphere — an atmospheric layer that starts 7.5 miles above the surface — is shrinking.
The stratosphere has gotten ... |
| May 2, 2021 | Watch live: SpaceX's Crew Dragon spaceship is bringing 4 astronauts back to Earth, ending NASA's longest human spaceflight | Flying aboard SpaceX's Crew-1 mission for NASA are astronauts (from left) Mike Hopkins, Soichi Noguchi, Shannon Walker, and Victor Glover. SpaceX; NASA; Samantha Lee/Business Insider
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SpaceX's Crew-1 mission for NASA is ... |
| Apr 23, 2021 | LIFTOFF: SpaceX launches 4 astronauts aboard the Crew Dragon Endeavour, its first time reusing a spaceship on a crewed mission | A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off with the Crew-2 mission on Friday. NASA TV
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SpaceX launched four astronauts into orbit for NASA early Friday morning.
The Crew-2 mission is using a recycled Crew Dragon spaceship and Falcon 9 ro... |
| Apr 21, 2021 | SpaceX is launching 4 astronauts into space on Friday. Here's how the journey will go — from liftoff to splashdown. | Crew-2 astronauts pose during a training session at the SpaceX training facility in Hawthorne, California. Left to right: Thomas Pesquet, Megan McArthur, Shane Kimbrough, and Akihiko Hoshide. SpaceX
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SpaceX is launching four astro... |
| Apr 19, 2021 | NASA's Mars helicopter took flight for the first time, opening the door for a new generation of space drones | Ingenuity snapped this photo of its shadow on the ground below as it flew on Mars for the first time, April 19, 2021. NASA/JPL-Caltech
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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter on Monday flew on Mars for the first time, making spaceflight... |
| Apr 10, 2021 | The Ingenuity Mars helicopter's blades are spinning ahead of its first flight — making the NASA team 'nervous and excited' | The Perseverance rover photographed the Ingenuity helicopter before (left) and after (right) it spun its rotor blades. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter has spun its blades and charged up with solar energy on ... |
| Jan 13, 2021 | Astronomers have discovered the earliest known supermassive black hole at the center of an ancient, faraway galaxy | An artist's impression of quasar J0313-1806. NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva
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Astronomers have discovered the earliest known supermassive black hole at the center of a bright, active galaxy called a quasar, 13 billion light-year... |
| Jan 9, 2021 | Deserts, storms, and volcanoes: The best photos astronauts have taken from the ISS | Backdropped by New Zealand and the Cook Strait in the Pacific Ocean, astronauts Robert Curbeam (left) and Christer Fuglesang (right) participate in an extravehicular activity.
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Astronauts have lived on the International Space Station co... |
| Dec 15, 2020 | Dozens of scientific breakthroughs this year upended our understanding of human history, the search for alien life, and the coronavirus pandemic | Scientists in a lab test COVID-19 samples at New York City's health department, April 23, 2020. Brendan McDermid/Reuters
Astronomers, archaeologists, geneticists, and many other scientists made mind-boggling breakthroughs in 2020.
Some... |
| Dec 6, 2020 | Einstein thought we'd never detect ripples in space-time. But a new experiment proved him wrong | A worker inspects quartz fibers that suspend a mirror inside the Virgo gravitational-wave observatory.
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Albert Einstein predicted that extremely massive objects, like black holes and neutron stars, send out... |
| Nov 16, 2020 | SpaceX just launched its longest and most ambitious NASA mission to date. Here's how the rest of the journey will go. | SpaceX's Crew-1 mission launched Sunday evening, rocketing four astronauts into orbit for a half-year spaceflight.
The Crew Dragon spaceship is expected to dock to the International Space Station on Monday night.
Crew-1 is the first fu... |
| Oct 26, 2020 | The moon has frozen water, NASA just discovered. Mining it may be crucial for travel to Mars | A map of "cold traps" inside shadowy lunar craters at the moon's south pole (left) and north pole (right). Blue dots show locations where water ice may be present at or near the surface.
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NASA scientists have discovered n... |
| Oct 26, 2020 | NASA will share an 'exciting new discovery' about the moon on Monday. Listen to the announcement live. | NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine at NASA Headquarters in Washington, November 29, 2018. NASA/Bill Ingalls
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On Monday, NASA will share "an exciting new discovery" about the moon.
The space agency has not revealed any de... |
| Oct 25, 2020 | NASA will share an 'exciting new discovery' about the moon on Monday | NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine at NASA Headquarters in Washington, November 29, 2018.
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On Monday, NASA will share "an exciting new discovery" about the moon.
The space agency has not revealed any details about... |
| Oct 1, 2020 | SpaceX has a new plan to keep boats away during its next astronaut landing — a response to the unsafe crowd it faced last time | Support teams and recreational boaters approach SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft after it landed with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Douglas Hurley in the Gulf of Mexico, August 2, 2020. Bill Ingalls/NASA
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SpaceX and NASA are... |
| Sep 22, 2020 | NASA just unveiled its step-by-step plan to land astronauts on the moon via the Artemis program — then build a lunar base | NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine speaks at a briefing on the Artemis lunar exploration program, September 11, 2019, in Washington, DC. NASA/Aubrey Gemignani
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NASA just unveiled its first full plan for its Artemis program, a seri... |
| Aug 8, 2020 | SpaceX says its first NASA astronaut flight went 'surprisingly well' — but the mission came with a few eye-opening snags | SpaceX safely returned NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to Earth in a Crew Dragon capsule on August 2 — completing the rocket company's first human journey.
In a briefing after the landing, Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX's pre... |
| Aug 4, 2020 | Meet Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, 2 'badass' astronauts, engineers, and 'space dads' who flew SpaceX's Crew Dragon to orbit and back | In May, SpaceX launched its first astronauts to orbit in its new Crew Dragon spaceship: NASA's Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley.
On Sunday, the astronauts landed safely after spending two months at the International Space Station.
Both men ... |
| Aug 2, 2020 | SpaceX's new 'Endeavour' spaceship is poised to make history after undocking from the International Space Station with 2 NASA astronauts aboard | An artist's concept shows the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft undocking from the International Space Station. SpaceX via NASA This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Jul 30, 2020 | NASA just launched its Mars alien-hunting Perseverance rover into deep space with a drone tucked under its belly | One of United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rockets propels NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover to space from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on July 30, 2020. Joe Skipper/Reuters
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NASA's new Mars rover, P... |
| Jul 20, 2020 | The United Arab Emirates launched a mission to Mars on Sunday. NASA and China are about to follow with their own rovers, an orbiter, and a helicopter. | An artist's rendering of NASA's Mars Perseverance rover. NASA/JPL-Caltech
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The United Arab Emirates launched a mission to Mars on Sunday.
NASA and China plan to launch their own by end of July.
In total, two rovers, two ... |
| Jul 15, 2020 | Three missions to Mars launch this month, from NASA, China, and the UAE – here’s what they’ll do | An artist's rendering of NASA's Mars Perseverance rover.
NASA, China, and the United Arab Emirates are all launching missions to Mars by the end of July.
Two rovers, two orbiters, and one helicopter will explore Mars after they ar... |
| Jun 19, 2020 | 'One of the most difficult jobs in America': NASA is now counting on Kathy Lueders, a 28-year space agency veteran, to land 2 astronauts on the moon in 2024 | NASA's Kathy Lueders sits at dais during a news briefing at Kennedy Space Center on May 30, 2020, following the launch of SpaceX's Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station. Kim Shiflett/NASA This story is available exclus... |
| Jun 12, 2020 | SpaceX is following up its first astronaut mission by launching 3 batches of internet satellites within 18 days | The first batch of 60 high-speed Starlink internet satellites, each weighing about 500 pounds, flat-packed into a stack before their launch aboard a Falcon 9 rocket on May 23, 2019. SpaceX via Twitter
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SpaceX recently launched NAS... |
| Jun 11, 2020 | NASA just picked the aerospace company Astrobotic to land the first US moon rover in 48 years — a robot that will hunt for ice | An illustration showing Astrobotic's Griffin moon-landing system deploying a ramp to deliver NASA's VIPER robot to the lunar surface. Astrobotic; Business Insider
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NASA is preparing to land a spacecraft on the moon for t... |
| Jun 9, 2020 | A newly-discovered star, and possibly habitable planet, are strikingly familiar to humans | An artist's impression of exoplanet K2-18b, its host star, and an accompanying planet in the system.
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Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable exoplanet and its star that are strikingly similar to th... |
| May 31, 2020 | SpaceX's 'Endeavour' made history by docking to the ISS with two NASA astronauts inside | An artist's illustration shows the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft docking to the International Space Station.
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SpaceX on Saturday launched its first humans into space: veteran NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley.
... |
| May 27, 2020 | SpaceX is about to make a second attempt at a historic crewed mission. Watch it live here. | NASA astronauts Bob Behnken (left) and Doug Hurley wear their spacesuits during a dress rehearsal on May 23, 2020, ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station.
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SpaceX is set to launch NASA ast... |
| May 26, 2020 | Astronauts flying SpaceX’s risky first launch say they are comfortable with the odds | NASA astronauts Bob Behnken (left) and Doug Hurley wear their spacesuits during a dress rehearsal on May 23, 2020, ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station.
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SpaceX is preparing to fly its f... |
| Mar 25, 2020 | 4 astronauts reveal their secrets to surviving months of isolation with other people | NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Expedition 24 flight engineer, looks through a window in the Cupola of the International Space Station on September 11, 2010.
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As the coronavirus has spread around the globe, millions of people are u... |
| Jan 18, 2020 | Scientists detected ripples in space and time from a potentially new class of collision in the universe | An artist's rendition of two neutron stars merging.
Large collisions in space, like those between black holes or neutron stars, create ripples in space-time called gravitational waves. The phenomenon was first predicted by Albert Einst... |
| Dec 29, 2019 | Here's why 2020 will likely be a groundbreaking year in space | NASA astronauts Doug Hurley (left) and Bob Behnken (right), who are scheduled to be the first people that SpaceX launches into orbit.
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The coming year will be full of astronomical spectacles and technological firsts. Here's a cal... |
| Dec 15, 2019 | NASA's plans for the 2020s include landing humans on the Moon, detecting quakes on Mars, and defending Earth from deadly asteroids | This artist's concept depicts astronauts and human habitats on Mars.
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NASA has big plans for the next decade of space exploration.
In the last year, the agency has announced plans to send humans back to the moon ... |
| Dec 5, 2019 | A record-breaking NASA probe circling the sun has found never-before-seen spikes of solar wind and a flipping magnetic field | An artist's illustration of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the sun.
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NASA has released its first results from the Parker Solar Probe's close approaches to the sun.
For the first time, the probe found evidence of a zone wit... |
| Nov 25, 2019 | The most mind-boggling scientific discoveries of 2019 include the first image of a black hole, a giant squid sighting, and an exoplanet with water vapour | A computer simulation of how a supermassive black hole's accretion disk and its event horizon (or inner "shadow") might appear to a telescope on Earth.
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Astronomers, anthropologists, geo... |
| Nov 10, 2019 | NASA's future missions will explore an icy moon of Jupiter, collect samples on Mars, and more. Here's what's coming in the next 10 years. | This artist's concept depicts astronauts and human habitats on Mars.
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NASA turns 61 years old on October 1. The agency first opened its doors in 1958.
In the last year, NASA has announced plans to return humans t... |
| Oct 9, 2019 | A huge explosion sliced through our galaxy just 3.5 million years ago, as human ancestors walked the Earth. Scientists think it was nuclear activity in the black hole at the Milky Way's centre. | An artist's impression of the massive bursts of radiation (purple) exploding from the center of the Milky Way and affecting the Magellanic Stream (the white cloud below the Milky Way spiral).
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| Jul 18, 2019 | Apollo 11: NASA shares rare footage of scientists testing moon rocks | More On: apollo 11
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| Jul 18, 2019 | Apollo 11: NASA shares rare footage of scientists testing moon rocks | More On: apollo 11
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| Jun 10, 2019 | Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have profound visions for humanity's future in space. Here's how the billionaires' goals compare. | Elon Musk (left) and Jeff Bezos.
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Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have each spoken at length about their visions for humanity's future in sp... |
| Mar 12, 2019 | Astronauts on the space station liked SpaceX's 'Earthy' toy so much that they kidnapped it. Their photos show how it's become a rookie crew member. | SpaceX launched a plush Earth doll aboard its Crew Dragon spaceship. Space station astronauts took the toy and now treat "Little Earthy,” they call it, as an unofficial crew member.
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| Feb 25, 2019 | Virgin Galactic rocketed its first woman past the edge of space | SpaceShipTwo, or VSS Unity, on Friday launched toward the edge of space for the second time.
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Virgin Galactic, the space-tourism company founded by Richard Branson, on Friday launched its ... |
| Dec 17, 2018 | Blockstream Boosts Bitcoin Satellite Service With Lightning Payments | Bitcoin users' ability to send transactions through outer space has just been given a boost.
Blockchain technology firm Blockstream announced Monday that it has expanded its satellite service to the Asia-Pacific region. It's also ... |
| Nov 26, 2018 | How NASA's InSight probe will survive '7 minutes of terror,' land on Mars, and make incredible discoveries about the red planet — and Earth, too | An illustration of NASA's InSight probe attempting to land on the surface of Mars
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NASA will try to land its InSight probe on the surface of the red planet around 8PM SAST on Monday.
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| Apr 25, 2018 | The Exoplanets Most Likely to Harbor Life | It’s hard to remember now, but there was a long period of time in which scientists weren’t sure how many planets might actually exist throughout the galaxy, much less how likely it might be to find a rocky planet. Thanks to missions like Ke... |
| Mar 28, 2017 | NASA’s new searchable media library is a treasure trove of space pics and video | Do you like space? Do you like looking at it, wishing you were there instead of here, perhaps? Well NASA just did something that will make your day. The U.S. space agency launched a new web-based search engine for much of its catalog of ima... |
| Aug 19, 2015 | Here's why astronauts age slower than the rest of us here on Earth | Astronaut Matthias Maurer of ESA (European Space Agency) is pictured on the International Space Station's truss structure during a spacewalk on March 23, 2022. NASA
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| Black holes can produce light when they collide, new research shows — astronomers just saw the first-ever 'flare' from a spacetime-bending merger | An artist's concept of a supermassive black hole and its surrounding disk of gas. Embedded within this disk are two smaller black holes orbiting one another. Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)
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| SpaceX is about to launch NASA astronauts to the International Space Station on its Crew Dragon spaceship. Here's what to expect. | NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley (front) participate in a SpaceX flight simulation of the planned Demo-2 test-flight mission in March 2020. SpaceX via NASA
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| As it happened: Cities pulverized and thousands dead in first 3 weeks of Russia's invasion of Ukraine | A firefighter comforts a woman outside a destroyed apartment building after a bombing in a residential area in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 15, 2022. AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda
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| NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei breaks Scott Kelly's spaceflight record | NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei does maintenance activities inside the International Space Station's Harmony module, June 9, 2021. NASA
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei has broken Scott Kelly's record for longest American spaceflight.
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| NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured photos of cyclones, changing colors, and seasons on 4 distant planets | A picture of Jupiter taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on September 4, 2021. NASA, ESA, Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC), Michael H. Wong (UC Berkeley), Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
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