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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It’s make or break time for NASA’s new moon rocket. With 8.8 million pounds of thrust, the rocket — called the Space Launch System (SLS) — is designed to be mightier than NASA’s mighty Saturn V.…
A 4-billion-year-old piece of Earth’s crust the size of Ireland is lurking beneath Western Australia, new research finds. This piece of crust is among the oldest on Earth, though not the oldest. That honor goes to rocks of the Canadian…
Six nights of observations by two powerful telescopes confirmed that the orbit of double asteroid Didymos is perfectly aligned for NASA’s asteroid-smashing DART spacecraft to arrive in late September. The observations, conducted in early July by the Lowell Discovery Telescope…
The huge, bowl-shaped Meteor Crater in Arizona that was formed some 50,000 years ago continues to yield new information, and surprisingly so. In addition, it is a go-to spot for preparing Artemis crews how to explore the moon — as…
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A new technique relying on deep learning could allow scientists to peek inside the moon’s permanently shadowed polar craters for the first time. The moon‘s south pole is of great interest, as NASA plans to land the Artemis 3 mission…
On Aug. 27, 1962, NASA launched to Venus with Mariner 2, the world’s first spacecraft to successfully visit another planet. Mariner 2 flew by Venus after a 3.5-month voyage through space. Mariner 2: First Spacecraft to Another Planet A Boeing…
SpaceX launched 54 more of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit and landed a rocket on a ship at sea on Saturday night (Aug. 27). A two-stage Falcon 9 rocket carrying 54 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space…
This is why launch pads have lightning towers. Lightning crackled today (Aug. 27) over Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, which will host the highly anticipated liftoff of the agency’s Artemis 1 moon mission on Monday…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s new megarocket for deep space flights is ready to attempt its historic first test flight next week The U.S. space agency on Saturday (Aug. 27) cleared the massive Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and its…
