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Scientists review the trajectory design and optimization for Jovian system exploration The Jovian system has long attracted the interest of…
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NASA’s tale of two towers: Both Artemis mobile launchers see action NASA’s Artemis program has one tower standing and one…
NASA’s tale of two towers: Both Artemis mobile launchers see action NASA’s Artemis program has one tower standing and one…
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NASA’s Europa probe gets a hotline to Earth NASA’s Europa Clipper is designed to seek out conditions suitable for life…
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Mars once had wet-dry climate conducive to supporting life: Study NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered the first evidence that Mars…
Image: Hubble captures lenticular galaxy NGC 6684 The lenticular galaxy NGC 6684 bathes this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space…
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Liberalism against capitalism The work of John Rawls shows that liberal values of equality and freedom are fundamentally incompatible with…
Virgin Galactic’s first space tourists finally soar, an Olympian and a mother-daughter duo Virgin Galactic rocketed to the edge of…
Virgin Galactic’s first space tourists finally soar, an Olympian and a mother-daughter duo Virgin Galactic rocketed to the edge of…
Nucleic Acid Stability in the Venusian Clouds How to approach finding life on other worlds will continue to be a…
NASA may delay crewed lunar landing beyond Artemis 3 mission NASA’s Artemis 3 mission, set to return humans to the…
Are we in for a blended wing revolution? The concept of blended wing body (BWB) aircraft has been around for…
Chemical contamination on International Space Station is out of this world, study shows Concentrations of potentially harmful chemical compounds in…
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NASA’s Most Surprising Spinoff The spinoffs that don’t directly go back into the space invention-discovery cycle nonetheless play a big…
Indian lunar landing mission enters moon’s orbit India’s latest space mission entered the moon’s orbit on Saturday ahead of the…
NASA back in touch with Voyager 2 after ‘interstellar shout’ NASA has succeeded in re-establishing full contact with Voyager 2…
Far out, man! Faraway spacecraft, distant objects, the lunar farside, and a pretty out-there art project. Go to Source Author:…
The great libraries of Rome Passersby could wander at will into grand public libraries in imperial Rome. Could they trust…
New exoplanet discovery builds better understanding of planet formation An international team of scientists has discovered an unusual Jupiter-sized planet…
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Airbus partners with Voyager Space to build ISS replacement Airbus and US space exploration firm Voyager Space announced Wednesday a…
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NASA Mars Ascent Vehicle continues progress toward Mars sample return The first rocket launch from the surface of another planet…
Two supermoons in August mean double the stargazing fun The cosmos is offering up a double feature in August: a…
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Life on Venus: Your Questions Answered Is there life on Venus? Was our planetary neighbor ever inhabited? Here are the…
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Need to image an asteroid close up? There’s an AMIGO for that There are so many asteroids. Just in our…
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NASA’s Juno is getting ever closer to Jupiter’s moon Io The spinning, solar-powered spacecraft will take another look of the…
SETI: New Tools for Screening Out Radio Interference Two new techniques for examining interesting SETI signals come into view this…
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Scientists derive new reaction rate for rapid proton capture process Type I X-ray bursts are the most frequent types of…
A mysterious interstellar radio signal has been blinking on and off every 22 minutes for more than 30 years Last…
Beer Into Rocket Fuel? The practical knowledge from NASA-funded discoveries and the inventions that enabled them fall under the rubric…
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Looking deeper into violent neutron star collisions to find the origins of heavy elements The gold that makes up your…
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Do not forget them Thousands of Indigenous children suffered and died in residential ‘schools’ around the world. Their stories must…
NASA’s ComPair gamma-ray hunting mission prepares for balloon flight Engineers and scientists have shipped NASA’s ComPair instrument to Fort Sumner,…
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Chemical cartography reveals the Milky Way’s spiral arms Keith Hawkins, assistant professor of astronomy at The University of Texas at…
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The “Habitability” of Worlds (Part I) Dave Moore is a Centauri Dreams regular who has long pursued an interest in…
New XRISM satellite mission to study ‘rainbow’ of X-rays A new satellite called XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission, pronounced…
Hubble views a galactic monster The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a monster in the making in this observation…
Crystals in Space Many branches of science—including Earth science, planetary science, astrophysics, and microgravity science—depend strongly on NASA and its…
Astronomers observe subpulse drifting and nulling of pulsar PSR J0026–1955 Using the upgraded Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (uGMRT), astronomers from…
Crowds cheer as India launches a lander and rover to explore the moon’s south pole An Indian spacecraft blazed its…
Speedy spacecraft and pretty pics Take a look at some of our favorite recent space images and learn about an…
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Study increases probability of finding water on other worlds by 100-fold A new analysis shows that there are probably many…
Scientists use NASA MESSENGER mission data to measure chromium on Mercury The origin of Mercury, the closest planet to the…
Reducing the Search Space with the SETI Ellipsoid SETI’s task challenges the imagination in every conceivable way, as Don Wilkins…
Technology hub to accelerate next-generation Airbus wings Wing Technology Development Centre (WTDC) opens at Filton, UK. Go to Source Author:…
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Webb detects most distant active supermassive black hole to date It’s a bonanza: The universe is absolutely teeming with black…
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Crème de la crème How French cuisine became beloved among status-hungry diners in the United States, from Thomas Jefferson to…
California Science Center to start complex process to display space shuttle Endeavour vertically The lengthy process of putting the retired…
California Science Center to start complex process to display space shuttle Endeavour vertically The lengthy process of putting the retired…
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First ultraviolet data collected by European Space Agency’s JUICE mission The Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) aboard ESA’s Jupiter…
On Retrieving Dyson One of the pleasures of writing and editing Centauri Dreams is connecting with people I’ve been writing…
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Sex in space and its implications for space tourism and settlement AI generated image of an amorous couple embracing in…
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