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NASA Tests the First Rocket to Launch From the Surface of Another Planet
NASA’s Perseverance rover has been diligently collecting rocky samples from Mars to stow them away on the planet’s dusty surface while engineers work to develop a rocket that can launch off of another world as a crucial step in the process of retrieving the samples. The team behind the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) recently tested…
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NASA Spacecraft Will Reunite With Earth After 17 Years of Studying the Sun
For the past 17 years, a lone spacecraft has been following Earth’s tracks in its orbit around the Sun and capturing unprecedented views of our host star. Now, STEREO-A has finally caught up with its home planet, lapping us in our cosmic trail and meeting the Earth for a brief rendezvous. On Saturday, NASA’s STEREO-A…
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Scientists Just Discovered a ‘Strawberry-Like’ Antarctic Invertebrate With 20 Arms
The Antarctic strawberry feather star is one of four new related species believed to have been discovered by a team of marine scientists.
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Meet the ‘Event Horizon Explorer’, Which Aims to See Light Rings Around Black Holes
Astronomers transfixed the public in April 2019 when they released the first-ever image of a black hole, produced by radio wave data from a collaboration of telescopes around the world known collectively as the Event Horizon Telescope. Now, a team of physicists and researchers have developed the plans for the successor to that project: a…