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Fusion-Powered Spacecraft Could Be Just a Decade Away
The tech could allow a probe to make it to Saturn in just two years.
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European spacecraft to intercept a comet
The European Space Agency is to launch another mission to a comet. After the hugely successful Rosetta encounter with the icy dirt-ball known as 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014, officials have now selected a new venture that will launch in 2028. It's called Comet Interceptor and will aim to catch and study an object that has come in towards the Sun from the outer reaches of the Solar System.
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Carl Sagan's Solar Sail Is Finally Ready To Fly
The Planetary Society is launching LightSail 2 to fulfill a vision rooted in the future.
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SpaceX aims to provide commercial Starship launches by 2021
SpaceX is only getting started launching Falcon Heavy commercial missions, but it already has its eyes on the next prize – launching Starship. Now, we know that it’s hoping to start commercial service for this next-generation, fully reusable rocket by 2021, according to SpaceX Vice President of Commercial Sales Jonathan Hofeller.
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Now you can check in on Bill Nye’s solar sail as it orbits Earth
LightSail 2 just got a new dashboard
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Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft just completed a historic asteroid landing
The asteroid-chasing spacecraft pulled off another daring heist, scooping up samples from near-Earth asteroid Ryugu.
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Moon buggies and bags of poo: what humans left on the moon
More than half a century of lunar exploration has left its mark on the moon. What Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin described as the “magnificent desolation” of the relentlessly grey surface is littered with clapped-out robots, spacecraft parts, moon buggies (including one with a bible on the dashboard) and technical equipment.
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To return to the Moon, astronauts need new spacesuits
Cape Canaveral (AFP) July 19, 2019 - Space engineer Pablo de Leon has designed two spacesuit prototypes for the Moon and for Mars, and knows how long development takes.
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Could we unleash microbes to mine asteroids?
A new experiment launched to the International Space Station on July 25 aims to study whether bacteria can help humans more easily extract materials from other worlds.
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Repeated signals coming to Earth from another galaxy, scientists say
One of the sources of mysterious energy blasts could be relatively nearby, scientists say
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Is Finally 100% Assembled
The milestone was a long time coming.
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Space wars: Trump's ready for his next big fight – in orbit
Donald Trump’s declaration that space represents “the next warfighting domain” comes at a time when nervous superpowers are taking an idea that once belonged to the realms of fiction increasingly seriously. US military briefings leading to Trump’s formal announcement of a new, separate space command argued that “an emergent China and a resurgent Russia” have eroded what Washington traditionally believed was an arena it could dominate.
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Scientists puzzled by really big planet orbiting really little star
Solar system discovered 30 light years from Earth defies current understanding about planet formation.
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Astronomers find huge planet that 'should not exist'
'It was completely unexpected'
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First alien gases detected from interstellar comet
Comet 2I/Borisov is releasing cyanogen—similar to comets from our own solar system
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Japanese spacecraft releases rover to explore asteroid
Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft released a small rover on Thursday that will land on the surface of an asteroid as part its final mission before heading back to Earth, Japan's space agency said.
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India pulls in the sharpest Moon surface images ever taken from orbit
Things haven’t quite gone to plan for India's Chandrayaan-2 mission, with the team losing the spacecraft’s Vikram lander following a touchdown attempt last month. But there is still plenty of science to come as the probe continues to circle the Moon, with the latest imagery relayed by the orbiting…
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SpaceX Crew Dragon could fly astronauts to the ISS in early 2020
There's more testing needed before astronauts fly to space on Crew Dragon.
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We found evidence of life on Mars in the 1970s, former Nasa scientist says
Nasa found evidence of alien life in the 1970s, according to a former senior scientist – and ignored it. The Viking landers were sent to the Martian surface more than 40 years ago, with the aim of exploring the planet. They included an experiment known as Labeled Release, or LR, which was intended to look for signs of life on the planet.
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Scientists plan a new orbiter mission to Pluto
Researchers already are planning an ambitious spacecraft that will orbit the mysterious world.
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