Spacecraft, what do your robot eyes see?
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Cameras on spacecraft are our eyes into the Cosmos. Sometimes they teach us things, sometimes they reveal gaps in our knowledge.
Someone’s aliens
Updated: 2024-09-30 22:50:35Life thrives on Earth, and we even send evidence of our presence out into the Solar System. Is anyone out there looking for us?Inside, underneath, backward, upside-down
Updated: 2024-09-30 22:50:35From holes on Mars to a spun-around moon and a flipped reflection, space science involves looking at things from all different angles.Cloudy skies, smooth sailing
Updated: 2024-09-30 22:50:35A Martian cloud atlas, LightSail wins big, and multiple missions coast toward launch.Your impact: September equinox 2024
Updated: 2024-09-30 22:50:35Exploring Europa and defending Earth.Where Congress Stands on NASA's 2025 budget
Updated: 2024-09-30 22:50:35Weeks before the new fiscal year, Congress still hasn't finalized NASA's 2025 budget.The Tianlin Space Telescope
Updated: 2024-09-30 22:50:35China is in the early stages of planning a huge space observatory to help answer the matter of whether we are alone in the galaxy.New insights into asteroid properties: A STEP Grant update
Updated: 2024-09-30 22:50:35A Planetary Society-funded project to understand asteroids achieved its main goals and scientific objectives this year.The Hera launch: What to expect
Updated: 2024-09-30 22:50:35The European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing to launch a mission to study the aftermath of DART's impact on the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos.Extraterrestrial artifacts
Updated: 2024-09-30 22:50:35Could the Solar System host traces of other intelligent life?The Europa Clipper launch: What to expect
Updated: 2024-09-30 22:50:35NASA is preparing to launch its flagship mission to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa. Launching as early as Oct. 10, 2024, and arriving in 2030, the mission will explore the icy world with a subsurface ocean that scientists think could have conditions favorable to life.Earthlings as aliens
Updated: 2024-09-30 22:50:35Looking at life on Earth from another perspective.Current laws cannot protect civilians in space if something goes wrong
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As the space industry evolves, we need a new set of international regulations to decide who is responsible for safety, the number of satellites in space, and moreAstronauts may need medical evacuation from one-third of moon missions
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Medically evacuating an astronaut from space is difficult and expensive, and a new model predicts that one in three long-duration moon missions may require itBacteria on the space station are evolving for life in space
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Genetic analysis shows that microbes growing inside the International Space Station have adaptations for radiation and low gravity, and may pose a threat to astronautsPolaris Dawn mission is one giant leap for private space exploration
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The success of the all-civilian spacewalk on SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission shows that private space flight is starting to catch up with government space agenciesHow to turn most of the CO2 an astronaut exhales into fresh oxygen
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A chemical reaction that recycles carbon dioxide into fresh oxygen could provide more sustainable life support for astronauts on the moon or Mars – and as a bonus, it also produces carbon nanotubes