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NASA and ESA complete agreement for cooperation on Mars rover mission

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

WASHINGTON — NASA and the European Space Agency have completed an agreement under which NASA will provide hundreds of millions of dollars ...

See Last Weekend’s Aurora From Space

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

NOAA’s JPSS Program satellites captured imagery of the stunning auroras that were visible in … [+] locations across the globe on May ...

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Reveals Dynamic Shifts on Europa’s Frozen Surface

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Jupiter’s moon Europa was captured by the JunoCam instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft during the mission’s close flyby on September 29, 2022. ...

NASA shares stunning image: Hubble Telescope captures triple-star system 550 light-years away

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s Hubble Space Telescope has released stunning image of triple-star system. The triple-star system is located ...

SpaceX, Blue Origin Vie To Expand Mars-Earth Interplanetary Internet

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The Interplanetary Internet, powered by interlinked satellites and relay stations that speed … [+] messages planet-to-planet via next-generation lasers, will spread across ...

Webb Finds Atmosphere on Rocky Exoplanet For the First Time

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, scientists may have identified atmospheric gases on 55 Cancri e, a super-hot, rocky exoplanet. This discovery ...

NASA’s Quest to Touch the Sun

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Our sun is the best-observed star in the entire universe. We see ...

NASA licenses 3D-printable superalloy that’s 2,500x stronger

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Visualizing a more durable and longer-lasting aircraft and spacecraft that could resist exorbitantly high temperatures has been an aspiration of aerospace industries ...

NASA Discovers Gravity-Squeezed World ‘Exploding With Volcanoes’

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

A roiling-hot exoplanet billions of miles away has been discovered, dotted with so many volcanos that it would visibly glow in the ...

NASA wants to build a train on the MOON for when humans eventually live there

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

A NASA-funded project aims to develop the first floating lunar railway  They claim this would be ‘critical’ to the operation of a ...