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Wheels and Helicopter Attached to Perseverance Rover
The Perseverance rover was recently integrated with its wheels and Mars Helicopter, as part of its final preparations before launch…
Even More Things That Saved Apollo 13: Charging the Batteries
Following the explosion of an oxygen tank in Apollo 13’s Service Module on April 13, 1970, approximately 56 hours into…
This is How the ESA and NASA Will be Working Together to Bring Rocks Back From Mars
The ESA has entered into a lucrative collaboration to help NASA get its Martian rock samples back to Earth.
Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids
The Trump administration just signed an executive order that has given the green light to asteroid and lunar mining and…
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.