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Elon Musk says SpaceX's 1st Starship trip to Mars could fly in 4 years

SpaceX is almost ready to start building a permanent human settlement on Mars with its massive Starship rocket. Advertisement. The private spaceflight company is on track to launch its first uncrewed mission to Mars in as little as four years from now, ...

Cosmonauts patch small air leak on International Space Station: reports

Cosmonauts are making progress in the fight against the small air leak that has beleaguered the International Space Station for months, according to Russian reports. The leak was first detected in September 2019 but was too low a priority for NASA and ...

Pluto's snowcapped mountains are unlike any on Earth

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EarthSky

A new study shows how methane snow accumulates on Pluto's mountain peaks. These snowcaps – first seen by New Horizons in 2015 – look a lot like ones on Earth, but form in a very alien environment. Sharing is caring! Tweet. Share. Pin. Mail. Share.

Why scooping an asteroid sample is harder than it looks

The sampler head of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft works not unlike a reverse vacuum cleaner, designed to collect loose material from the surface of asteroid Bennu on Oct. 20. Credit: .NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. When NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft ...

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The Moon's farside unveiled

Astronomy Magazine

For millennia, the Moon's mysterious farside remained hidden from inquisitive humans. This is because the Moon is tidally locked to Earth, meaning the so-called nearside is always facing our planet. Ernie Wright/NASA's Scientific visualization studio.

Research team discovers uniquely quantum effect in erasing information

Researchers from Trinity have discovered a uniquely quantum effect in erasing information that may have significant implications for the design of quantum computing chips. Their surprising discovery brings back to life the paradoxical "Maxwell's demon," ...

New feature found in energy spectrum of universe's most powerful particles

University of Delaware researchers are part of collaboration studying cosmic rays. In addition to Cherenkov detector tanks filled with water, the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina has a second kind of cosmic-ray catcher — fluorescence detectors.

Adorable tardigrades fight UV rays with glowing shield

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Livescience.com

Scientists have discovered yet another reason to be impressed with tardigrades; some of these microscopic, nearly indestructible creatures wear a glowing "shield" that protects them from ultraviolet radiation. Tubby tardigrades — also called moss piglets or ...

NASA supercomputing study breaks ground for tree mapping, carbon research

Scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and international collaborators demonstrated a new method for mapping the location and size of trees growing outside of forests, discovering billions of trees in arid and semi-arid ...

Long-term data show a recent acceleration in chemical and physical changes in the ocean

New research published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment uses data from two sustained open-ocean hydrographic stations in the North Atlantic Ocean near Bermuda to demonstrate recent changes in ocean physics and chemistry since the ...