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InSight Data Reveals More About Mars’ Evolution

Rocky material that impacted Mars lies scattered in giant lumps throughout the planet’s mantle, offering clues about Mars’ interior and…

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A Giant Burst of Energy In Need Of An Explanation

Astronomers have detected an explosion of gamma rays that repeated several times over the course of a day, an event…

10 months ago

One Extremophile Eats Martian Dirt, Survives In Space, And Can Create Oxygen For Colonies

Extremophiles are a favorite tool of astrobiologists. But not only are they good for understanding the kind of extreme environments…

10 months ago

SpaceX targets Sept. 23 for launch of NASA’s IMAP mission to map the boundaries of our solar system

A SpaceX Falcon 9 launch on Sept. 23 will send three spacecraft a million miles from Earth to map the…

10 months ago

Astronomers discover repeating gamma-ray burst ‘unlike anything we have ever witnessed before’ (video)

A newly discovered gamma-ray burst is unlike any seen before, repeating over the course of a day rather than erupting…

10 months ago

Maxar to supply 3D terrain data for U.S. Army mixed-reality system

The system, known as Soldier-Borne Mission Command Architecture (SBMC-A), is being developed by defense contractor Anduril Industries. The post Maxar…

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Fossilized micrometeorites record ancient carbon dioxide levels

A cadre of iron-rich extraterrestrial particles picked up faint whiffs of our planet's atmosphere when they fell to Earth millions…

10 months ago

‘Directive 8020’ is ‘The Thing’ in space, but is developer Supermassive Games biting off more than it can chew?

Directive 8020 is shaking up the Supermassive Games formula for better and for worse.

10 months ago

FCC closes EchoStar probes as spectrum sales reshape D2D race

The FCC has dropped investigations into EchoStar as the satellite operator moves to sell spectrum to SpaceX and AT&T in…

10 months ago

‘Artificial super astronauts’: How AI and robotics could help humanity settle Mars

In the not-too-distant future, "artificial astronauts" could fly as actual crew members on human missions to Mars, and elsewhere in…

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