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Researchers develop new design and fabrication method to make lightsails for interstellar travel
In a potential step toward sending small spacecraft to the stars, researchers have developed an ultra-thin, ultra-reflective ...
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'It’s still surreal': NASA engineer explains what it's like to help put spacecraft into orbit
Lots of us look up at the night sky with wonderment, asking how humans are able to explore the universe. Tracy Drain, a ...
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Ultra-thin lightsails with billions of tiny holes to enable high-speed space travel
Researchers have developed scalable lightsails, ultra-thin, reflective structures that use laser-driven radiation pressure to ...
A Stunning Fusion Rocket Could Cut Interplanetary Travel in Half—and We'll Try It in Just 2 Years
Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to ...
Webb unmasks true nature of the 'Cosmic Tornado' spiral galaxy
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured a beautiful juxtaposition of the nearby protostellar outflow known as Herbig-Haro 49/50 with a perfectly positioned, more distant spiral galaxy ...
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Super Shoe Newcomer Confronts Heavyweights With Performance and Style: Tracksmith Eliot Racer Review
Nike changed the landscape of performance running shoes when it debuted the Vapor Fly 4% in 2017. Almost a decade later, ...
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SpaceX confirms: Gigabay coming, and Starship launch from Florida by end of year
SpaceX has announced plans to launch Starship from Kennedy Space Center's Pad 39A by the end of the year. Construction of the SpaceX Gigabay, a facility for stacking and finalizing Starship ...
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NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Sunita Williams stranded in space for nine months finally set for return
Two NASA astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, who have been stranded in space for nine months, are finally preparing for their return to Earth. The duo, originally expected to stay for ...
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We planned for the unexpected, say stranded Nasa astronauts from space station
Two Nasa astronauts stuck on the International Space Station (ISS ... and there were leaks of helium gas which pushes fuel into the propulsion system. A running saga ensued as Nasa said it ...
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NASA’s two stuck astronauts are finally closing in on their return to Earth after 9 months in space
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. NASA’s two stuck astronauts are just a few weeks away from finally returning to Earth after nine months in ...
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Stranded US astronauts expected to return home after nine months in space
Two NASA astronauts are expected to come home this month after being stranded in space since June. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were originally scheduled for an eight-day mission, but their ...
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NASA astronauts prepare for return to Earth after nine months stuck in space
The two astronauts will now be returning on a SpaceX capsule. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who traveled to the International Space Station last June for what was initially a ...