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NASA Has a Huge Dust Problem Over on the Moon, Calls in HuLC to Handle It
NASA Has a Huge Dust Problem Over on the Moon, Calls in HuLC to Handle It

2 Jul 2024, 12:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA announced the winners of the Human Lander Challenge (HuLC) that was meant to find a solution to lunar plume surface interaction

 
NASA Finds Life Ingredients in Samples From Asteroid That Was Once Part of a Wet World
NASA Finds Life Ingredients in Samples From Asteroid That Was Once Part of a Wet World

30 Jun 2024, 09:38 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The first major study on the samples brought back from asteroid Bennu reveal the presence of some of life's building blocks

 
SpaceX Gets $843 Million to Crash and Burn the International Space Station
SpaceX Gets $843 Million to Crash and Burn the International Space Station

28 Jun 2024, 11:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA announced it awarded SpaceX a contract to build the deorbit vehicle that will be used to bring down the International Space Station

 
NASA Picks SpaceX to Haul ISS to Its Tomb, Gets Nearly $1 Billion to Do It
NASA Picks SpaceX to Haul ISS to Its Tomb, Gets Nearly $1 Billion to Do It

27 Jun 2024, 18:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Elon Musk's SpaceX will get the call to bring the ISS back home safely. Well, safely for all of us, not the station itself.

 
Chopped B-52 Stratofortress Could Have Carried the Space Shuttle, NASA Said No
Chopped B-52 Stratofortress Could Have Carried the Space Shuttle, NASA Said No

27 Jun 2024, 10:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Animation shows two of the proposals for Space Shuttle carriers that were rejected by American space agency NASA back in the 1970s

 
NASA Flies a Battery-Powered Aircraft Engine at 27,500 Feet Without Leaving the Ground
NASA Flies a Battery-Powered Aircraft Engine at 27,500 Feet Without Leaving the Ground

27 Jun 2024, 07:38 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA announced it wrapped up the first series of tests on the magnix hybrid powertrain for electric aircraft

 
Video Shows the Gateway Moon Space Station in Such Detail It'll Make You Dizzy
Video Shows the Gateway Moon Space Station in Such Detail It'll Make You Dizzy

26 Jun 2024, 13:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A new animation video shows the upcoming Gateway Moon space station in never-before-seen detail, sadly we don't get a glimpse of the interior

 
A Star in Our Sky Could Go Thermonuclear Soon, Earth Getting Ready for the Action
A Star in Our Sky Could Go Thermonuclear Soon, Earth Getting Ready for the Action

22 Jun 2024, 21:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A white dwarf located 3,000 light years from Earth is believed to go nova by September 2024, astronomoers plan to look at it like never before

 
NASA Is Working on a Telescope Meant to Spot Signs of Aliens on Distant Worlds
NASA Is Working on a Telescope Meant to Spot Signs of Aliens on Distant Worlds

20 Jun 2024, 14:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) will be the world's first telescope designed to search for signs of alien life on exoplanets

 
NASA Says It Found Popcorn on Mars
NASA Says It Found Popcorn on Mars

19 Jun 2024, 14:07 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Perseverance Mars rover arrived in a region of the planet where rocks have a popcorn-like texture, investigation into them to be conducted

 
NASA Repairs the Most Distant Human Spacecraft in Existence from 15 Billion Miles Away
NASA Repairs the Most Distant Human Spacecraft in Existence from 15 Billion Miles Away

17 Jun 2024, 08:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA said that for the first time in months the Voyager 1 spacecraft is sending back full science data from 15 billion miles away

 
Webb Telescope Hunting for Living Aliens on Other Planets, Galaxy Doesn't Want Them Found
Webb Telescope Hunting for Living Aliens on Other Planets, Galaxy Doesn't Want Them Found

11 Jun 2024, 16:07 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Despite the James Webb telescope being the most powerful ever built, it still needs years and a lot of help to prove life exists elsewhere

 
Phase-Change Materials Can Give Never-Ending Power to Subsea Robots, Sensors, and More
Phase-Change Materials Can Give Never-Ending Power to Subsea Robots, Sensors, and More

10 Jun 2024, 12:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA and a company called Seatrec are working on a power generating method that harnesses the ocean's temperature changes

 
Astronauts in Spacesuits Touch the SpaceX Starship Landing System for the First Time
Astronauts in Spacesuits Touch the SpaceX Starship Landing System for the First Time

6 Jun 2024, 12:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA took two astronauts to California to play with a prototype of the SpaceX Human Landing System (HLS) that will put humans on the surface of the Moon

 
Real-Life Astronauts Test the Habitation Module of Humanity's First Distant Space Station
Real-Life Astronauts Test the Habitation Module of Humanity's First Distant Space Station

4 Jun 2024, 11:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The European Space Agency (ESA) completed the first series of tests of its Gateway Lunar International Habitat (Lunar I-Hab)

 
NASA Satellite Swarm Does Things No Other Satellite Swarm Has Done Before, More to Come
NASA Satellite Swarm Does Things No Other Satellite Swarm Has Done Before, More to Come

3 Jun 2024, 14:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA said the primary missions of the Starling satellite swarm have been met ten months after the mission was launched, further tests on the horizon.

 
NASA Spacecraft Survives Much Closer Encounter With the Sun Than It Was Designed To
NASA Spacecraft Survives Much Closer Encounter With the Sun Than It Was Designed To

30 May 2024, 10:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA released an update on the status of the OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft after its close encounter with the Sun, says all works as intended

 
Badass Yarns and High-Tech Glue Keep America's Moon Spacecraft From Burning on Re-Entry
Badass Yarns and High-Tech Glue Keep America's Moon Spacecraft From Burning on Re-Entry

28 May 2024, 11:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA provided us with more details on the brand new material used for part of the Orion heat protection system

 
Spacecraft With Brilliant Blue Glow Trail Passes Mars, Moves Further Into Space
Spacecraft With Brilliant Blue Glow Trail Passes Mars, Moves Further Into Space

28 May 2024, 08:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA says the xenon ion thrusters of the Psyche spacecraft are working as intended, namesake target asteroid to be reached in 2029

 
Brand New American Spaceplane Enters Final Stretch to Launch
Brand New American Spaceplane Enters Final Stretch to Launch

23 May 2024, 11:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Sierra Space and NASA have begun the final testing procedures on the Dream Chaser spaceplane called Tenacity ahead of launch later this year..