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'This is really intolerable': Astronomers protest giant orbiting mirror project and SpaceX's million AI satellites
"It's absolutely the destruction of a central part of human heritage. "
Astronomers are up in arms, protesting against a proposed constellation of tens of thousands of orbiting mirrors intended to reflect light onto ground-based solar power plants and SpaceX's envisioned one million orbiting data centers.
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Newly discovered photos show astronaut Neil Armstrong after the Gemini 8 emergency
NEW YORK (AP) -- Sixty years after Neil Armstrong barely survived an emergency in orbit around Earth on Gemini 8, never-before-seen photos of his heroic return have been donated to the Ohio museum that bears his name.
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arstechnica.com
We keep finding the raw material of DNA in asteroids -- what's it telling us?
On Monday, a paper announcing that all four DNA bases had been found on an asteroid sparked a lot of headlines. But many of the headlines omitted a key word needed to put the discovery in context: "again.
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NASA hauls its repaired moon rocket from the hangar back to the pad for an early April launch
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- For the second time this year, NASA moved its moon rocket from the hangar out toward the pad Friday in hopes of launching four astronauts on a lunar fly-around next month.
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NASA-Backed Startup to Try Ingenious Asteroid Mining Idea: Just Bag It
There are roughly 250 small, near-Earth asteroids teeming with precious resources that are ripe for extraction. Mining asteroids for water and metals has the potential to be extremely lucrative, but companies have so far struggled to come up with the means to extract resources from the flying space rocks.
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Asteroid Ryugu Is Carrying All 5 DNA Building Blocks of Life. Could There Be Another Earth in the Universe?
According to a study published in Nature Astronomy, scientists analyzing samples from the Hayabusa2 mission have confirmed that all five of the essential building blocks of DNA and RNA, known as nucleobases, exist on the asteroid Ryugu.
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Ohio man finds possible meteorite after bright fireball streaks across 12 states
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People in northern Ohio are already discovering pieces of space rock after a meteor streaked through the atmosphere over 12 states on Tuesday.
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Meteorite hunting 101: How to spot space rocks in Northeast Ohio
CLEVELAND, Ohio - There's no way of knowing how many meteorites struck the ground in and around Medina County on Tuesday morning after a 7-ton asteroid exploded over the Cleveland area.
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Meet the Platypi: NASA's Newest Astronaut Candidate Class - NASA
Ten explorers are currently training at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston to become flight-eligible astronauts.
Selected in 2025, the astronaut candidates are building the technical and operational skills needed for future missions to the International Space Station, the Moon, and eventually Mars.
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NASA rover detects some of the oldest evidence of water flowing on Mars
WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) - Using ground-penetrating radar, NASA's Perseverance rover has detected underground remains of an ancient river delta on Mars in some of the oldest evidence yet obtained showing how water once flowed on the surface of Earth's planetary neighbor.
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arstechnica.com
A private space company has a radical new plan to bag an asteroid
It may sound fanciful, but a Los Angeles-based company says it has conceived of a plan to fly out to a smallish, near-Earth asteroid, throw a large bag around it, and bring the body back to a "safe" gathering point near our planet.
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'Back to the Moon': Time magazine salutes Artemis 2 astronauts in special commemorative cover issue
Artemis 2 will push humans 4,700 miles beyond the far side of the moon, breaking the previous record set by Apollo 13 astronauts in 1970, marking the beginning of a series of bold missions aiming to establish American superiority in space and land astronauts on the moon by 2028.
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We asked former astronauts about their favorite space movies, and this is what they said
NASA's Artemis II mission is set to launch as early as February 6, putting human spaceflight to the moon back in the spotlight after a 50-plus year hiatus which may inspire future filmmakers to explore the possibilities of space travel in their own work.
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We asked former astronauts about their favorite space movies, and this is what they said | CNN
NASA's Artemis II mission is set to launch as early as February 6, putting human spaceflight to the moon back in the spotlight after a 50-plus year hiatus which may inspire future filmmakers to explore the possibilities of space travel in their own work.
