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Earth receives first transmission via laser beam from 16 million kilometres away!
This achievement marks the first time such capabilities have been demonstrated with near-infrared e…
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NASA is building an electric spacecraft to reach the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter
A year from now, NASA will launch an electric spacecraft named Psyche to reach the asteroid belt be…
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Space science missions to look forward to in 2022
There’s always something big to look forward to in space and 2022 has some major launches planne…
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Watch NASA launch a spacecraft to explore ancient asteroids that lead and trail Jupiter around the sun
The Trojan asteroids have barely changed since the birth of our solar system. NASA's Lucy mission a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Mini-moons like the one Earth just captured could be huge business opportunities
Asteroids are ripe for mining. Some contain gold or platinum. Others could help make rocket fuel. W…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Earth received a message sent from a deep space laser — it took just 50 seconds to travel 10 million miles
This was NASA's first test of its Deep Space Optical Communications system, which could one day bri…
Marianne Guenot
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A NASA cat named Taters makes history by starring in the first ultra-HD video streamed from deep space
NASA lasers shot this cat video through deep space faster than the internet sent it here on Earth. …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Erin Sn…
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NASA is visiting an asteroid valued at more than the entire world economy's worth, but that's not why it's going there
The asteroid, named 16 Psyche, is thought to be made of 30% to 60% valuable metals, which could inc…
Grace Eliza Goodwin,Jenny McG…
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NASA probe heads for metal-rich asteroid worth $10 quintillion after launch on SpaceX rocket
With help from Elon Musk's SpaceX, NASA successfully launched a probe headed for an asteroid brimmi…
Filip De Mott
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An asteroid loaded with $10 quintillion worth of metals edges closer to US reach
NASA is preparing to launch a spacecraft to study an asteroid thought to be made up of $10 quintill…
Filip De Mott
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The race to the moon is heating up as lunar resources could top $1 quadrillion in value
The head of Russia's space agency said "the race for the development of the natural resources of th…
Filip De Mott
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A diamond-encrusted meteorite that fell to Earth may come from a long-lost planet in our solar system
"Diamonds very often encapsulate and trap minerals and melts present in their formation environment…
Dave Mosher
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NASA just announced it will probe a dead planet's core
"[W]hen NASA says that there have been 12 Discovery missions, consider that 10 of them were selecte…
Dave Mosher
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NASA's InSight lander sent back its first photo of Mars within minutes of touching down - take a look
InSight will spend about two Earth years checking out the red planet, some 140 million miles away f…
Hilary Brueck
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NASA thinks this frigid world is our best hope of finding alien life - here's why
And now, with NASA's 2016 budget got an unexpected $1.3 billion raise, it looks like a mission to E…
Kelly Dickerson
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Dead planets can 'broadcast' for up to a billion years, and they could tell astronomers what will happen after our sun blows up
Stars die because they eventually burn through their reserves of hydrogen and helium. That fuel cre…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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This video perfectly captures why we are so excited about NASA's mission to Pluto
The National Space Society put together an incredible video preview of the history-making moment. I…
Kelly Dickerson
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India’s First Mars Mission Midway Through Its Journey, Nearing Its Goal
Mangalyaan’s story provides a unique insight into the Indian psyche. Only in India you will find ro…
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Astronaut says a neglected telescope is NASA's best chance of defending Earth from 'city killer' asteroids - 'for God's sake, fund it'
The NASA competition it was a part of, called Discovery, values scientific firsts - not ensuring hu…
Dave Mosher
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This space mission could save Earth from killer asteroids - but NASA keeps hitting the snooze button
Take the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), for example, which is one of Earth's best current …