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The planetary body looks like a blurry fog when viewed from Earth. However, experts believe the asteroid is especially rich in metal based on light bounced off it. The core is assumed to be made up of exposed metallic iron, nickel, and…
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A NASA spacecraft has officially “touched” the sun, plunging through the unexplored solar atmosphere known as the corona. Scientists announced the news Tuesday during a meeting of the American Geophysical Union. The Parker Solar Probe…
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NASA is preparing a mission to deliberately smash a spacecraft into an asteroid -- a test run should humanity ever need to stop a giant space rock from wiping out life on Earth. It may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but the DART…
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Elon Musk said Wednesday that the Starship developed by his company SpaceX and selected by NASA for the Americans' return to the Moon would attempt its first orbital flight early next year. "We'll do a bunch of tests in December and…
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The return of humans to the Moon, already postponed last week by NASA from 2024 to 2025, will actually take place in 2026 "at the earliest", according to a government audit published on Monday. The Artemis program to return Americans to…
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Nasa and SpaceX, the private rocket company of Elon Musk, launched four more astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station late on Wednesday, including a veteran spacewalker and two younger crewmates chosen to join Nasa's…
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NASA is extending its target date for sending astronauts back to the moon to 2025 at the earliest, the US space agency’s chief said on Tuesday, stretching out by at least a year the timeline pronounced under former President Donald Trump.…
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NASA has announced a delay in the return to earth from the International Space Station (ISS) of its 4-member SpaceX Crew-2 mission, which will now begin its journey back home on November 8 (local time). In a blog post, the US space agency…
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Country borders do not exist when viewed from space – a simple observation made by astronauts and experts at a panel organised for Expo’s Space Week that served to highlight the need for collaboration, inclusion and diversity in the space…
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An asteroid will fly past Earth at a distance of just 3.4 million kilometres or 2.1 million miles, the closest approach in more than six decades. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) has listed asteroid 2016 AJ193,…
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