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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 ...
Earth 1, asteroids 0: The next generation of planetary defense takes shape at JPL
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...
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Another IVO Quantum Inertia Drive Attempt
Another IVO quantum inertia drive is in orbit now and will be turned on within a few to ten weeks and then operated for many ...
Scientists Observe Carbon Dioxide on Planets Outside the Solar System for the First Time
The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...
Space photo of the week: The last sight you see before dying on the moon
The final act of the Blue Ghost lander's busy two weeks on the moon was to send back sunset shots featuring Earth and Venus.
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Renowned Greek Astrophysicist Krimigis: Colony on Mars “a Distant Dream”
World-renowned Greek astrophysicist Stamatios Krimigis says that a human settlement on Mars is a distant dream.
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NASA spacecraft to make close pass of sun
A NASA spacecraft will make another close brush with the sun, the second of three planned encounters through the sizzling solar atmosphere. The Parker Solar Probe made its record-breaking first pass ...
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NASA spacecraft set for second close encounter with the sun—what it hopes to learn
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is set for another close brush with the sun, reaching record speeds of 430,000 mph as it flies ...
Portal Space Systems opens its doors for a sneak preview of solar propulsion system
Bothell, Wash.-based Portal Space Systems shows off the lab where its solar thermal propulsion system will be developed.
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NASA launches newest space telescope to seek life’s key ingredients
Like SPHEREx and the Webb telescope, PUNCH will be able to work in tandem with NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, which launched in 2018 and recently made its closest pass to the sun, to capture the ...
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The Insane Engineering of the Parker Solar Probe
The Parker Solar Probe is an engineering marvel, built to withstand temperatures exceeding 1,400°C while traveling at 700,000 km/h—the fastest human-made object ever. But getting there wasn’t ...