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NASA Tests a 3D Printed Aluminum Rocket Nozzle

NASA recently test fired an engine that uses 3D-printed aluminum rocket nozzles, which could be a game changer for space…

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The Solar Wind Whistles as it Passes Mercury

The Mercury , part of the BepiColombo International Mercury Exploration Project, has revealed some interesting things about Mercury's magnetosphere.

1 year ago

JWST Observes the Kuiper Belt: Sedna, Gonggong, and Quaoar

Using data acquired by the JWST, an international team of planetary scientists have revealed new insights about some of the…

1 year ago

NASA's Psyche Mission is off to Asteroid Psyche

NASA's Psyche mission just launched on a six year journey to explore a metal world in the Asteroid Belt.

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TRAPPIST-1 Has Flares. What Does This Mean for its Planets?

Using spectra obtained by Webb, an international team examined three TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets during a series of flares.

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OSIRIS-REx Returned Carbon and Water from Asteroid Bennu

Carbon and water are so common on Earth that they're barely worth mentioning. But not if you're a scientist. They…

1 year ago

China is Planning to Double the Size of its Space Station

China announced that it will double the size of Tiangong in the hopes that it will fill the void left…

1 year ago

What’s Next for NASA’s UFO Research? Outside Observers Weigh In

BOULDER, Colo. — NASA says it's going to play a bigger role in studying what's behind unidentified anomalous phenomena, the…

1 year ago

Is This a Collapsed Lava Tube on the Moon?

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured fascinating images of a feature on the Moon that could be a collapsed lava…

1 year ago

Those Impossibly Massive Early Galaxies Might Just Be Surprisingly Bright

A new series of simulations from Northwestern shows that those impossibly large galaxies were actually just very, very bright!

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