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NASA picks Astrobotic to land ice-hunting VIPER rover at the moon's south pole

A Pennsylvania-based space company called Astrobotic has taken on a dramatic new task for NASA: deliver a VIPER to the moon. Not a snake, of course. Astrobotic's payload will be a large rover designed to sniff out water ice buried below the lunar surface, ...

NASA delays launch of Mars rover Perseverance to July 20

It's a 3-day delay, but there's still plenty of wiggle room for Perseverance. The launch window closes Aug. 11. Shares. Comments (0). This image of the rocket-powered descent stage sitting on top of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover was taken in a clean room ...

Another delay: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope won't launch in March 2021

We'll have to wait a bit longer still to see NASA's next big space telescope get off the ground. The much-delayed $9.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope won't launch in March 2021 as previously planned, NASA officials confirmed yesterday (June 10).

SpaceX's 1st Crew Dragon astronauts settle into life at the space station

NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, who recently became the first crew to fly in SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft, have settled into their new temporary home on board the International Space Station. During an interview with reporters on ...

Cascade sets the stage for superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

Place a single sheet of carbon atop another at a slight angle and remarkable properties emerge, including the highly prized resistance-free flow of current known as superconductivity. Now a team of researchers at Princeton has looked for the origins of this ...

Scientists create exotic matter on space station to explore the quantum world

Scientists have generated an exotic form of matter in the unique microgravity environment aboard the International Space Station and are using it to explore the quantum world, a new study finds. There are four states of matter common in everyday life ...

First space tourists will face big risks, as private companies gear up for paid suborbital flights

On May 30, 2020, millions of Americans watched the inaugural SpaceX Crew Dragon launch NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. This mission marked two significant events: First, the return of launch to orbit capability for human spaceflight ...

NASA is sending a rover to the moon to prospect for water and help astronauts 'live off the land'

Washington Post

Washington Post

NASA announced Thursday it is hiring a private company to. a golf-cart sized rover to the surface of the moon in 2023 that would roam the lunar South Pole in search of water. Support our journalism. Subscribe today. The move comes as the space agency is ...

SpaceX is following up its first astronaut mission by launching 3 batches of internet satellites within 18 days

Business Insider

Business Insider

SpaceX recently launched NASA astronauts to the International Space Station in the first-ever crewed commercial spaceflight. But Elon Musk has not slowed down the company's other projects: SpaceX is set to launch three batches of Starlink satellites this ...

Biggest asteroid to pass close (and undetected) this year

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EarthSky

Asteroid 2020 LD passed within the moon's distance on June 5, but wasn't discovered until June 7. It's the 45th known and the largest asteroid to sweep within a lunar-distance of Earth so far in 2020. Sharing is caring! Tweet. Share. Pin. Mail. Share ...