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NASA aims to perform lunar mining trial within 10 years
NASA's Artemis missions and its upcoming lunar Gateway station project are part of its plans to establish a permanent presence on the Moon. Key to that will be the extraction of resources from the lunar surface, and NASA has already taken important steps toward mining moon soil by 2032, a scientist said today, June 28, according to a Reuters report.
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The sun's activity could peak 2 years early, frying satellites and causing radio blackouts by the end of this year, experts say
The sun has had an unusually large number of sunspots this year forcing scientists to revisit their predictions of when the solar maximum will hit.
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SpaceX veteran Tom Mueller targets space service economy with tug business
Though SpaceX founder Elon Musk most often commands headline, the story of the private space startup hinges on a collection of key early figures. One is Tom Mueller, the famed space propulsion expert who ran development of SpaceX’s rocket engines and helped crack the code on reusability, the concept SpaceX has pioneered that has dramatically driven launch costs lower.
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NASA is recycling 98 percent of astronaut pee and sweat on the ISS into drinkable water | Engadget
This week, NASA revealed that the International Space Station’s Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) is recycling 98 percent of all water astronauts bring aboard the station..
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Eight teams of hackers will compete to breach U.S. satellite in space
Protecting satellites from hacks is becoming more important as industries from agriculture to banking and insurance rely on space-based capabilities.
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In a first, JWST detected starlight from distant galaxies with quasars
Until JWST’s sharp infrared eyes came along, it wasn’t possible to see the galaxies hosting extremely bright supermassive black holes called quasars.
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Watch live as two Russian cosmonauts conduct spacewalk
Though we all have differences, there’s one commonality that has prevailed for all of humanity: we are all floating on a rock, flying through outer space at over a million miles an hour. Thanks to the rapid advancement of technology in the past century, we can observe much more of the universe than we ever thought possible.
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We Live in the Rarest Type of Planetary System
A planetary system is shaped at the boundary of order and chaos. It starts out as a molecular cloud—a big, cold clump of mostly hydrogen gas that can collapse to make stars. As central stars form, the remainder of the cloud flattens into a whirling protoplanetary disk that weaves together worlds from turbulent swirls of gas, ice and dust. From there larger-scale chaos can ensue as bigger planets push smaller ones around.
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Missing Stars Puzzle Astronomers: Could Intelligent Life Be the Cause?
Over a period of 70 years, thousands of stars have vanished from the sky; Which prompted a team of astronomers to shed light on this phenomenon .. and perhaps a (very weak) hope of uncovering traces of intelligent civilizations outside the planet.
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Virgin Galactic plans first commercial space flight this month
Virgin Galactic has sold about 800 tickets over the past decade, with the initial batch going for $200,000 each.
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The mysterious behavior of this Supergiant star hints at an impending supernova, new study
The bright, red star Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion has shown some unexpected behaviour.
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Titanic asteroid the size of 84 orcas to pass Earth on Monday
A massive asteroid the size of 84 orcas is set to pass by the Earth on Monday, June 12, according to NASA's asteroid tracker. The asteroid in question has been designated 488453 (1994 XD), according to the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Despite the initials, it has nothing to do with the XD emoticon some older users of SMS and instant messaging may recognize.
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NASA Says There May Be Life on the Moon After All
NASA researchers say Moon astronauts should consider that microbial life could survive in shadowed niches near the south pole.
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NASA's new moon car for Artemis astronauts will be inspired by Mars rovers
NASA wants more than just a lunar golf cart.
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Repeated signals from the center of the Milky Way could be aliens saying hello, new study claims
Could intelligent aliens be lurking at the heart of the Milky Way? A new search for extraterrestrial life aims to find out by listening for radio pulses from the center of our galaxy. Narrow-frequency pulses are naturally emitted by stars called pulsars, but they're also used deliberately by humans in technology such as radar.
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1st-ever private Venus mission delayed until at least 2025
Rocket Lab had aimed to launch the mission this year.
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Game on—the most metal of asteroid missions is back on the menu
One year after NASA announced an indefinite delay of a much-anticipated mission to visit a metal-rich asteroid, the agency said Monday that the Psyche spacecraft is back on track. The Psyche mission is now scheduled to launch in four months on a Falcon Heavy rocket, and everyone involved in the project feels good about that date.
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Stunning Photo of Earth Taken by Europe's Powerful New Satellite
The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a stunning photo of Earth from its latest satellite imager that captures weather conditions in never-before-seen detail.
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New 'quasi-moon' discovered near Earth has been travelling alongside our planet since 100 BC
Astronomers recently identified asteroid 2023 FW13 as a quasi-moon, a space rock orbiting the sun nearly in tandem with Earth.
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China Announces Plan to Land Astronauts on Moon by 2030
The announcement formalized a timeline that Chinese scientists have set out before, as the United States and China ramp up competition in space.
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