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Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician who helped put a man on the moon,...
NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson calculated the path that put a man on the moon.Despite her incredible contributions to America's space agency, Johnson remained largely unknown until the...
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NASA's InSight lander on Mars has detected about 450 quakes. They suggest the...
NASA's InSight lander has detected about 450 Mars quakes since it picked up its first one in April 2019.Researchers were surprised to find that the quakes are similar to quakes on the moon, which...
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This is what Mike Bloomberg could have bought for half a billion dollars...
Mike Bloomberg on Monday passed the $500 million mark in campaign advertising spending.For that staggering price tag, what else could the 78-year-old billionaire have bought for himself instead of all...
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The Smithsonian just released 2.8 million free digital images of its...
The Smithsonian Institution is putting 2.8 million images online for anyone to access for the first time ever.The online open-access platform has images from all 19 Smithsonian museums, plus research...
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China's groundbreaking lunar rover found nearly 40 feet of dust on the far...
China landed a spacecraft called Chang'e 4 on the moon's far side in January 2019 — the first country ever to do so.The rover has measured a layer of lunar dust, or regolith, that's "quite thick": It...
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NASA's new 'space home' for tourists could cost as much as $35,000 to stay...
Space exploration company Axiom announced its plans for upcoming space tourism, partnering with Nasa.French designer Philippe Starck designed the interiors, which have touchscreens and LED...
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Astronomers photographed a possible 'mini-moon' orbiting Earth — though it...
Astronomers recently photographed a small object in a chaotic orbit around Earth.It might be a mini-moon — a former asteroid temporarily in Earth's orbit. If so, it would be only the second such object...
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New satellite-internet schemes by SpaceX and Amazon are a gamble that just...
New internet networking technologies have radically changed how the US and similarly developed nations work and live.However, planned fleets of thousands of internet-beaming satellites — including...
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NASA's next Mars rover is officially called 'Perseverance.' A 7th-grader from...
NASA chose the name "Perseverance" for its next Mars rover, which is scheduled to launch in July.A 7th-grade student from Virginia proposed the name as part of a contest. He will get to watch the rover...
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Axiom Space inks deal with SpaceX to take private astronauts into space — and...
Axiom Space, a startup co-founded by a former NASA space station program manager, has inked a deal to fly all-private missions to orbit with SpaceX rockets and ships.Axiom told Business Insider that...
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Elon Musk tweeted a photo of the moon and called it Mars — and this isn't the...
Elon Musk tweeted a picture on Wednesday of the moon with the text "Occupy Mars," an apparent callback to the last time he mixed up two the celestial bodies in June.It seems likely that Musk was...
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Spy balloons that can see a phone in your hand will soon fly loops over North...
World View Enterprises is a startup based in Tucson, Arizona, that launches surveillance balloon-craft into the stratosphere.The company says its Stratollites, as the devices are called, can take...
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'This is the first time NASA has been in this situation:' NASA is forcing...
NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Tuesday that all staff are now under a mandatory order to work from home "until further notice" due to the ongoing spread of coronavirus in the US.NASA...
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SpaceX's Starlink satellite-internet project may create hundreds of visible...
SpaceX this week launched 60 more more of its internet-beaming Starlink satellites into orbit, bringing the total to 360. Nearly 12,000 may fly before the end of the decade, though.Astronomer Jonathan...
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Satellite images reveal Russia is rapidly building a 500-bed hospital in a...
Russia has reported relatively few cases of novel coronavirus infections compared to other countries.However, experts question Russia's claims that the country has been mostly insulated from COVID-19,...
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The world's largest plane will soon be used to launch hypersonic aircraft...
Aerospace company Stratolaunch Systems is changing its mission and developing hypersonic aircraft that aims to reimagine spaceflight and long-distance travel. The company has successfully built and...
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2 architects are building a habitat to live on the moon. They're going into...
A Danish architecture firm is building a prototype for eventual lunar habitation, asking "what does it take to live on the moon?".Two architects will live in the prototype for a three month simulated...
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NASA's current fleet of spacesuits were reported to cost between $15 million and $22 million in 1974.Having not built any new mission-ready extravehicular suits since then, NASA only has 4 working...
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The most detailed map of the moon's geology ever released may help astronauts...
The US Geologic Survey (USGS) just released the most detailed map ever of moon's surface features and geology as a spinning 3D moon.The map shows brightly colored spots on the lunar surface,...
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Watch SpaceX and NASA preview the first all-American crewed space mission in...
NASA retired its space shuttle fleet in July 2011, leaving the agency without a US rocket or spaceship to fly people.Since then, NASA has leaned entirely on Russia to launch its astronauts to and from...
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