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NASA sends spacecraft to meet asteroid on collision-course with Earth
NASA’s spacecraft OSIRIS-REx has finally reached the asteroid 101955 Bennu – which may be on collision course with the ...
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Elon Musk won't smoke weed and drink whiskey on a podcast again, says NASA admin
Following Elon Musk’s recent appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast – during which he smoked weed and drank whiskey while ...
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Russia to build Moon colony by 2040: NASA says hold my beer
Russia's federal space agency intends to establish a lunar colony by the year 2040. NASA, meanwhile, announced today that ...
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NASA's InSight probe successfully lands on Mars and deploys solar panels
NASA's InSight probe landed on Mars a few hours ago after a rigorous voyage through space of nearly seven months. The space ...
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NASA wants to send humans to Venus – here's why that's a brilliant idea
Popular science fiction of the early 20th century depicted Venus as some kind of wonderland of pleasantly warm temperatures, forests, swamps and even dinosaurs. In 1950, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Natural History Museum were soliciting reservations for the first space ...
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NASA is developing AI to give directions in space
Before we all join Space Force and go invade Mars we're going to have to figure out how to build bases and navigate in space. ...
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NASA just made thousands of hours of Apollo 11 tapes public for the first time
When Apollo 11 descended from the heavens, touching down on the moon on July 20, 1969, three brave men became immortals, the types of men forever remembered for a single act that defined their storied careers. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins might be the names we ...
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Train like an astronaut with this NASA-approved mobile app
Few of us will ever get to step foot on a space shuttle but that doesn't mean we're incapable of training like those who do. What is it? Space Nation Navigator is a mobile app that trains aspiring astronauts (or those wanting to train like them) in three core areas: body, mind, ...
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NASA's new Galactic Positioning System could lead to truly autonomous spacecraft
NASA is taking the global out of GPS. Its new Galactic Positioning System could revolutionize space travel for people and ...
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NASA released a playlist of creepy space sounds in time for Halloween
NASA has released "spooky" sounds from space and it's the stuff of nightmares -- just in time for Halloween. To most of us, space is deafeningly silent. But that's only because the human ear can't capture the electromagnetic pulses and radio bursts, amongst other sounds that live ...
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NASA wants to spend $3B drilling into a volcano to save the United States
NASA has a plan to ease the threat caused by the Yellowstone Caldera, a supervolcano that could erupt to devastating consequence. ...
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No, NASA isn’t about to announce it found aliens
The last few days have been exciting and confusing for alien enthusiasts. A viral video claimed to have evidence that NASA would release new information about life beyond planet Earth. The source of the excitement? A quote from NASA Science Mission Directorate Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen ...
