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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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Robinhood's cofounder has joined the rapidly growing commercial space race, and wants to beam solar power from satellites to earth
A report from McKinsey earlier in 2024 estimated that the global space economy will be worth $1.8 t…
Polly Thompson
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Blasting the Moon’s surface with super-concentrated Sun beams could help create usable roads for future lunar rovers!
Hence, in an attempt to find on-site solutions, researchers conducted experiments to investigate th…
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NASA is back on the moon with the first commercial lunar landing ever
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander is the first US spacecraft to land on the moon in more than 50 …
Ellyn Lapointe,Morgan McFall-…
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India's adorable, dog-sized moon rover did its first science on the moon by shooting powerful laser beams at the surface
The 57-pound moon rover, called Pragyaan — meaning wisdom — has conducted the first-eve…
Sonam Sheth,Morgan McFall-Joh…
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Last week, an asteroid pair came dangerously close to Earth, posed for some pictures and left!
Both asteroids 2024 MK and 2011 UL21 came in peace and were more than happy to be papped. 2011 UL21…
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Noisy neighbour: The Earth randomly blasted Venus with a Missy Elliott hip-hop song last week, because why not?
The song journeyed approximately 254 million kilometres from Earth to Venus, completing the trip in…
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After 10 years of trying, NASA finally bounced its first-ever laser beam off the lunar orbiter
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been bouncing lasers off the Moon sinc…
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After the Moon, Mars is getting laser-reflecting mirror to help future landings on the Red Planet
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s brand-new Mars Perseverance Rover is currently …
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Back to the Moon: NASA is set to launch the Artemis 1 mission — here’s what you should know
NASA’s ambitious Artemis 1 mission is all set to take an essential step toward returning humans to …
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Intuitive Machines almost lost its moon lander because somebody forgot to flip a switch before launch
Intuitive Machines almost lost its moon landing after someone forgot to flip a switch before launch…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Scientists want to build telescopes on the moon for up to $10 billion to see more of the universe than the James Webb Space Telescope
Astronomers want to build giant telescopes on the moon. They're already drafting blueprints and mak…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA to re-attempt the launch of the Artemis 1 moon mission on September 3
"During that launch attempt, teams were not able to chill down the four RS-25 engines to approxima…
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NASA's Juno probe at Jupiter beamed back close-up photos of the planet's largest moon, Ganymede, for the first time in 2 decades
Juno recently zipped past Ganymede and snapped a stunning portrait of the moon. NASA expects more c…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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China refutes NASA chief's claim that the country is looking to take over the moon
NASA chief Bill Nelson told a German news outlet that he was concerned China would land on the moon…
Cheryl Teh
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope imaged Jupiter's rings and moons, in white-hot infrared
NASA's new Webb telescope is powerful enough to capture galaxies 13 billion light-years away, and s…
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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NASA fixed a glitch on Voyager 1 after consulting 45-year-old manuals. The spacecraft was beaming information through a dead computer.
Voyager 1 was designed and built in the early 1970s. Documentation could be lost or misplaced, maki…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Space photos from 5 recent moon-landing missions show how tiny engineering errors can cause big problems, like crashing or landing sideways
Moon landings are so complex that even the tiniest mistakes have caused missions to crash or burn. …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Chandrayaan's detection of sulphur, other elements will help unveil Moon's mysteries, say experts
What was known in theory has now been confirmed twice. The Chandrayaan-3 mission has authenticated …