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Boeing Just Sent NASA Its Moon Lander Idea for Artemis Astronauts. Here It Is.

Boeing is already building a new spaceship and a giant rocket for NASA. Now, the aerospace company wants to go to the moon. On Tuesday (Nov. 5), Boeing delivered a proposal to NASA for a crewed lunar lander to fly astronauts to the moon in 2024 as part ...

Mars Society Founder Makes Case for 'Mars Direct' Path to the Red Planet

WASHINGTON — Both SpaceX and NASA have ideas about how to get humans to the Red Planet, but the founder of the Mars Society says there's a better way to do it. In a colorful talk here at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) on Oct. 23, Robert ...

Yes, the 'Von Braun' Space Hotel Idea Is Wild. But Could We Build It by 2025?

Will you be planning a trip to an orbiting "space hotel" as early as 2025? The Gateway Foundation, a private company developing this "space hotel," thinks so. The organization plans to build what it describes on its website as "the first spaceport.

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Don't Miss Monday's Rare Transit of Mercury

Sky & Telescope

Amateurs around the world await the little black dot that will cross the Sun. 2003 Mercury transit. A montage of the 2003 Mercury transit photographed by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. NASA / ESA. On Monday, November 11th, Mercury will pass ...

New measurement yields smaller proton radius

Using the first new method in half a century for measuring the size of the proton via electron scattering, the PRad collaboration has produced a new value for the proton's radius in an experiment conducted at the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson ...

World-leading microscopes take candid snapshots of atoms in their 'neighborhoods'

(Top figure) Selected electron beam diffraction patterns that were used to form the molecular structure shown at the bottom. (Bottom figure) 4D-STEM map traces the molecular structure of a small-molecule thin film. (Credit: Colin Ophus/Berkeley Lab). We can ...

Aerial Scans Help Bust California's Worst Methane Leakers

WIRED

WIRED

The air above Earth—especially above California, United States, Earth—might have way more of one particular climate-changing gas in it than anyone thought. And that could actually be good news. The gas is methane, CH4, the main component of natural ...

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Boeing aims for Moon landing in 'fewer steps'

BBC News

Aerospace giant Boeing has unveiled its proposal for a lander that could take humans to the Moon's surface. Under a programme called Artemis, the White House wants to return humans to the Moon by 2024. Its approach, named "Fewest Steps to the Moon", ...

Researchers demonstrate the effectiveness of a plasma reactor for the treatment of water

Civilian researchers completed a two-week field demonstration here Sept. 25 using an innovative plasma technology to degrade and destroy perfluorooctane sulfonate and perfluorooctanoic acid, known as PFOS and PFOA, in groundwater. This was the first ...

A Transit Of Mercury Told Us The Scale Of The Universe

Forbes

Forbes

On Monday, November 11, Mercury will pass in front of the Sun as seen from Earth. It is known as a transit. It last happened in 2016, but the next one won't happen again until 2032. Catch it if you can. Most people won't see the transit. While a transit of Venus ...