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Building blocks of life discovered in Titan’s atmosphere — NASA discovers a ‘weird’ molecule on Saturn’s largest moon
This is a big deal because out of over 200 moons within our solar system, and 62 that belong to …
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NASA's $1 billion Dragonfly drone mission will look for signs of life on Saturn's moon
As well as look for water, carbon compounds, and other signs of potential life. And NASA already ha…
David Anderson,Shira Polan
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Google has been offered help from an unlikely source in its mission to return to China
Google's China plans, which it confirmed for the first time last week, have stirred contention both…
Isobel Asher Hamilton,Isobel …
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NASA's next $1 billion space mission will be an alien-hunting nuclear helicopter that flies around Saturn's icy moon Titan
In short, the device converts heat energy into electricity. The beating heart of an RTG is a radioa…
Dave Mosher,Aylin Woodward
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NASA is about to announce the finalists of its next $1 billion space mission
Previous missions selected by New Frontiers include New Horizons, a nuclear-powered probe that flew…
Dave Mosher
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NASA just picked 2 finalists for its next billion-dollar space mission - here's what the projects could accomplish
Dragonfly is a dual-quadcopter lander that would take advantage of the environment on Titan to fly …
Hilary Brueck
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Sanctioned oligarchs' use of the Hawala payment system is a desperate move but not necessarily illegal, experts say
Russian oligarchs appeared to have anticipated sanctions by moving money through an informal paymen…
Sam Tabahriti
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NASA's Mars helicopter took flight for the first time, opening the door for a new generation of space drones
The Perseverance rover carried Ingenuity to Mars in its belly, and now the space drone has flown. I…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA engineers expected their Mars helicopter to crash after 5 liftoffs. It just landed its 15th flight.
Engineers weren't sure if NASA's Ingenuity helicopter would even lift off on Mars. But the drone ha…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Everything you need to know about silovarchs Russia's security elites — and the power they wield
Oligarchs do not hold such a great deal of political influence contrary to what is believed. Howeve…
Sam Tabahriti
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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter just failed to lift off from the Martian surface, but it will try again on Friday
Ingenuity didn't get off the ground for its ambitious fourth flight. NASA engineers have just a wee…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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SpaceX has safely landed 4 astronauts in the ocean for NASA, completing the US's longest human spaceflight
The astronauts of Crew-1 were on the International Space Station for six months. They just passed t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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8 weird robots NASA wants to send to space
Introducing the Mars Chopper. The small, solar-powered helicopter will, fingers crossed, be the fir…
Clancy Morgan,Abby Tang
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Sundar Pichai says more than 100 Google employees were working on a censored China search engine at one point
Pichai: Congressman, I commit to engaging. One of the things that's important to us as a company, w…
Nick Bastone
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Lakes of methane on Saturn's moon Titan may be the craters of giant explosions, a new study shows
Near the moon's north pole, the data showed, a series of small lakes sport rims that tower hundreds…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Sundar Pichai spoke about Google's China plans for the first time and it doesn't look like he's backing down
Pichai has maintained more than two months of public silence about Project Dragonfly after The Inte…
Shona Ghosh
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Google's former CIO reveals why his biggest regret from his time at the company was failing to conquer China
But CEO Sundar Pichai appears to think Google can still be a force for good in the country. "I genu…
Charlie Wood
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Google is going through a slow-motion employee revolt and its cofounders are missing in action
In the following months, a group would form within Google, the organizer said, with the aim of endi…
Nick Bastone
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Russia's new stealthy 'Hunter' drone just took flight for the first time with the country's most advanced fighter
The flight involving both the Okhotnik drone and the Su-57 fighter appears to confirm what some hav…