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NASA Decides to Play it Safe. Wilmore and Williams are Coming Home on a Crew Dragon in February
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will remain on board the International Space Station until February, returning to Earth on…
Chinese Researchers Devise New Strategy for Producing Water on the Moon
In the coming years, China and Roscosmos plan to create the International Lunar Research PStation (ILRSP), a permanent base in…
China Proposes Magnetic Launch System for Sending Resources Back to Earth
In his famous novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein describes a future lunar settlement where future…
Debris from DART could Hit Earth and Mars Within a Decade
On Sept. 26th, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroids Redirect Test (DART) collided with Dimorphos, the small moonlet orbiting the larger asteroid…
The NASA Break the Ice Challenge Awards $1.5M to Two Start-Ups
We might be a little late on reporting for this one - the space exploration community is large, and sometimes,…
NASA’s Says Goodbye to its Asteroid-Hunting NEOWISE Mission
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), launched in 2009, spent the next fourteen and half years studying the Universe in…
A New Study Shows How our Sun Could Permantly Capture Rogue Planets!
Interest in interstellar objects (ISOs) was ignited in 2017 when 'Oumuamua flew through our Solar System and made a flyby…
Starliner Successfully Fires its Thrusters, Preparing to Return to Earth
Being trapped in space sounds like the stuff of nightmares. Astronauts on board the International Space Station have on occasion,…
Finally! Astronomers Find the Missing Link Between Stellar and Supermassive Black Holes
While black holes are known as the most destructive objects in the universe, their evolution is largely shrouded in mystery.…
Mercury Could be Housing a Megafortune Worth of Diamonds!
Mercury, the closest planet to our Sun, is also one of the least understood in the Solar System. On the…