Tag: science
Chicks hatched from artificial eggshells, a new mission to study Earth’s magnetosphere and more science stories
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Perseverance checks in from Mars with a selfie, the mounting pollution from satellite launches, and more science stories
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NASA’s Curiosity rover gets its drill stuck, recordings from the Arctic seafloor and more science stories
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NASA targets a September launch for its next big space telescope
NASA's next eye into the cosmos is due to leave our planet later this year. The agency says it's targeting an early September launch for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Roman (for short) has a field of view 100 times larger than Hubble's. The September date is the earliest…
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover found promising organic chemicals on Mars
The search for signs of life on Mars continues to yield promising data. A first-of-its-kind wet chemistry experiment, published Tuesday in Nature, confirmed the presence of essential ingredients of life preserved in ancient Martian sandstones. The molecules were found inside 3.5-billion-year-old sandstone. NASA’s Curiosity rover collected the clay-filled rocks from an…
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Artemis II arrives in lunar space ahead of its trip around the Moon
Artemis II and its four-person crew have entered the Moon’s “sphere of influence,” meaning the spacecraft is more affected by lunar gravity than the Earth’s pull. The transition occurred at a distance of 39,000 miles from the Moon, four days, six hours and two minutes into the mission. The next…
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