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UAE will launch its first moon rover in 2024

The United Arab Emirates has joined the roll-call of nations looking to visit the moon, with a lunar rover named Rashid scheduled to launch in 2024. The announcement comes while the nation's first mission beyond Earth orbit, a Mars spacecraft called Hope, ...

'Asteroid Hunters,' inspired by an asteroid deflection mission, launches in IMAX today

Many years ago, long-time Hollywood film distributor Phil Groves saw a news story about asteroids that re-ignited his childhood interest in space. Groves' passion for asteroids will soon come through on screen nationwide as his brand new documentary ...

New NIST project to build nano-thermometers could revolutionize temperature imaging

Cheaper refrigerators? Stronger hip implants? A better understanding of human disease? All of these could be possible and more, someday, thanks to an ambitious new project underway at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

The New York Times

What's Green, Soggy and Fights Climate Change?

The New York Times

Protecting intact peatlands and restoring degraded ones are crucial steps if the world is to counter climate change, European researchers said Friday. In a study, they said peat bogs, wetlands that contain large amounts of carbon in the form of decaying ...

A new look at sunspots

NASA's extensive fleet of spacecraft allows scientists to study the Sun extremely close-up—one of the agency's spacecraft is even on its way to fly through the Sun's outer atmosphere. But sometimes taking a step back can provide new insight. In a new study, ...

NASA Just Sent a New $23 Million Space Toilet to the International Space Station

Smithsonian

Smithsonian

To help its astronauts boldly go, NASA just shipped a newly designed space toilet to the International Space Station. The first new commode designed in decades will eventually be used for deep space missions, but for now the agency wants to test it out a ...

Planets more hospitable to life than Earth may already have been discovered

Livescience.com

Livescience.com

At least two dozen planets outside the solar system might be better for life than Earth. These planets are just a little older, a little wetter, a little warmer and a little larger than Earth is, researchers wrote Sept. 18 in the journal Astrobiology. All of these factors ...

The legacy of of the Spitzer Space Telescope

To understand the significance of the Spitzer Space Telescope on the understanding of our solar system, think of what the steam engine meant for the industrial revolution. A national team of scientists today published in the journal Nature Astronomy two ...

EarthSky

Radar reveals 3 more subsurface polar lakes on Mars

EarthSky

Scientists with the European Space Agency say that the Mars Express orbiter has found evidence of three more salty lakes below Mars' south pole. The discovery comes two years after the first lake was detected in 2018. Sharing is caring! Tweet. Share. Pin.

What's That Very Bright Planet In The East? How To See Mars This Week At Its Best Until 2052

Forbes

Forbes

Go look at Mars tonight. A few hours after the Sun sets in the west, look to the east and you'll see a big, bright "star" that's unmistakably red. It's almost as big and as bright as it's been since August 28, 2003, and it won't be as big, as bright and as well ...