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WFIRST Will Use Relativity to Find More Exoplanets!
When it deploys in 2025, NASA's WFIRST mission will rely on the gravitational microlensing technique to locate exoplanets near the…
Mapping Out the Water on the Moon
Using LRO data, the ESA recently created a map of water ice on the Moon, which will aid in future…
Astronaut Pee Will Help Build Bases on the Moon
In a strange development, a new ESA-supported study has shown that urine could actually help astronauts build bases on the…
This Powerful Ion Engine Will Be Flying on NASA’s DART Mission to Try and Redirect an Asteroid
Despite humanity's current struggle against the novel coronavirus, and despite it taking up most of our attention, other threats still…
Apollo 15 Astronaut Al Worden has Passed Away
The world recently lost another luminary, NASA astronaut Al Worden, who was part of the Apollo program and piloted the…
NASA Chooses 4 New Astronomy Space Missions for Additional Study
NASA recently selected four new missions for development that will study gravitational waves, supernovae, relativistic jets, and exoplanet habitability.
The Lunar Gateway is No Longer a Required Part of the Artemis Mission to Return to the Moon by 2024
As anticipated, NASA has announced that the Lunar Gateway will no longer be part of their "return to the Moon"…
NASA tells Boeing to Make 61 Corrective Actions to Starliner Before the Program can Continue
An independent review has found 61 issues that need to be fixed before Boeing's CST-100 Starliner can take to space…
Good News! The New Strategy of Using InSight’s Arm to Push the Mole Seems to be Making Progress.
There's at least one small bit of good news in these challenging Covid-19 times. And it's playing out on the…
Greenland and Antarctica are Losing Their Ice 6 Times Faster than in the 1990s
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