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NASA estimates the pandemic ballooned costs by $3 billion — here are the projects to take the biggest hit

As the coronavirus pandemic spread across the globe in 2020, many organisations were forced to shut…

Prabhjote Gill   


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Nasa warned the Earth is trapping twice as much heat as in 2005 - a pace that's 'unprecedented'

Researchers from NASA and NOAA found Earth's "energy imbalance approximately doubled during the 14-…

Sinéad Baker   


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'Failed stars' may have a cosmic speed limit to how fast they can spin — otherwise they'll break apart

Brown dwarfs, also called ‘almost stars’ or ‘failed stars’, can spin as fast as 300,000 kilometres …

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Russia and NASA have been on edge for years. Threats to leave the International Space Station are no surprise.

NASA and Roscosmos still need each other, for now. But they've been preparing to part ways for year…

Morgan McFall-Johnsen   


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NASA kicks off attempt to set spacewalk record — and here’s what’s in store

NASA’s success will mark a pace that hasn’t been seen since the ISS, was first constructed bac…

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I used to work on Mars rovers and now I develop self-driving cars. Here's how I made the pivot from NASA's JPL to Amazon's Zoox.

Olivier Toupet used to work for NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. Now he's a principal software engineer a…

Alexa St. John   


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An astronomer at Japan's space agency is making simple animations that reveal the surprising physics of the solar system

As a scientist at both NASA and JAXA, James O'Donoghue has studied the planets. In his free time, h…

Morgan McFall-Johnsen   


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3D glasses, double headsets, and rock drilling: NASA engineers told us what it's like to drive a Mars rover from home during the pandemic

Pilots of the Mars rover are having to wear red-blue 3D glasses to drive Curiosity while working fr…

Isobel Asher Hamilton   


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A sun-skimming spacecraft captured video of a massive plasma eruption on the solar surface for the first time

The sun's outbursts can send plasma and electrically charged particles careening toward Earth. This…

Morgan McFall-Johnsen   


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NASA will let Axiom Space fly the first private astronauts to the International Space Station in 2022

Axiom is launching four of its own astronauts on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceship. Eventually, Axiom …

Kelly McLaughlin   


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Watch NASA mission control live as the Perseverance rover attempts to land on Mars on Thursday

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will attempt to record video and audio as it plunges through the pla…

Morgan McFall-Johnsen   


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NASA built 5 Apollo lunar landers that never launched into space. Here's what happened to the historic moon ships.

A variety of factors led to the program's cancellation (and the mothballing of LM-13). First, a rup…

Dave Mosher   


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4 auto experts share their takeaways from 3rd-quarter woes at Rivian, Lucid, and Canoo and what they expect for the end of 2022

Electric-vehicle startups reported another challenging quarter. Here's what experts have to say abo…

Nora Naughton,Alexa St. John   


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NASA photographed a huge avalanche from space in what it calls 'a stroke of luck'

However, Congress has yet to make these NASA program cuts official in its long, complex budgeting p…

Dave Mosher   


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Aishwarya Pissay, a champion motorcyclist, describes what it takes to ace the circuit

Fearless Aishwarya Pissay navigates through life on a motorcycle through the harshest of terrains, …

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NASA is hiring someone to help figure out how to get Mars rocks back to Earth - and the position pays at least $182,000

Formally, the job is director of the Mars Sample Return (MSR) program, which aims to bring scientis…

Holly Secon   


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NASA says a clock error sent Boeing's new astronaut spaceship veering wildly off-course during its maiden voyage

The Starliner had no people on board - just cargo and a crash-test dummy named Rosie - when it lift…

Dave Mosher   


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NASA is giving its $1 billion Jupiter mission a critical new lease on life

NASA planned to destroy the tennis-court-size robot by plunging it into Jupiter's clouds sometime a…

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NASA has confirmed that its $1 billion Jupiter mission will cheat death for at least 3 more years

NASA planned to destroy the tennis-court-size robot by plunging it into Jupiter's clouds sometime a…

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NASA will retire its new mega-rocket if SpaceX or Blue Origin can safely launch its own powerful rockets

Musk also plans to modify an upper stage of his blockbuster Falcon 9 rocket into a "mini-BFR ship" …

Dave Mosher