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NASA sent a secret message to Mars. Meet the civilians who decoded it.
A science-minded team of father and son collaborated to decode a NASA engineer's message on the Perseverence parachute that helped guide the rover to Mars. They weren't the only ones who tackled it....
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2 win Abel Prize for work that bridged math and computer science
Mathematicians Avi Wigderson and László Lovász will share the Abel Prize. Their work involves proving theorems and developing methods in pure mathematics. The research has found practical use in...
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Get ready for the first flight of NASA’s Mars helicopter
Packed under the belly of Perseverance, a car-size robotic vehicle that landed on Mars last month, is Ingenuity, a 4-pound mini-helicopter intended to demonstrate that flying on another planet is...
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Note to Future Space Travelers: Prepare for a Shrinking Heart
In space, your heart gets smaller. In a study published on Monday in the journal Circulation, scientists reported that the largest chamber of the heart of Scott Kelly, who spent nearly a year on the...
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SpaceX wins NASA $2.9 billion contract to build moon lander, beating Blue Origin
The contract represents something of a triumph for Musk in the battle of space billionaires. One of the competitors for the NASA lunar contract was Blue Origin, created by Jeff Bezos of Amazon.
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NASA Mars Helicopter’s First Flight: When to Watch
Early Monday, a robotic helicopter that NASA sent to Mars will try to rise a few feet in the air, hover and come back down. With that simple feat, it would become the first machine to fly through the...
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NASA’s Mars Helicopter Completes First Flight on Another Planet
A small robotic helicopter named Ingenuity made space exploration history Monday when it lifted off the surface of Mars and hovered in the wispy air of the red planet. It was the first machine from...
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NASA’s Mars helicopter’s 2nd flight is a success
NASA’s engineers already made history Monday with the 39.1-second flight of Ingenuity, a small helicopter, in the thin atmosphere on Mars. On Thursday, they added to their success when the experimental...
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‘Nothing Short of Amazing’: NASA Mars Helicopter Makes Longest Flight Yet
NASA’s Mars helicopter went up again, going faster and traveling a total distance that was about the length of an American football field on its third trip through the wispy air of Mars. Like the first...
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Heads up! A used Chinese rocket is tumbling back to Earth this weekend
No, you are almost certainly not going to be hit by a 10-story, 23-ton piece of a rocket hurtling back to Earth. That said, the chances are not zero. Part of China’s largest rocket, the Long March 5B,...
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Bye Bye, Bennu: NASA Heads Back to Earth With Asteroid Stash in Tow
After more than two years of sightseeing at an asteroid, a NASA spacecraft is now heading home. Scientists cannot wait to get their hands on the souvenirs it is bringing back. Beginning about 4 p.m....
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Scientists find a fossilized ancestor of ‘dinosaur food’
Before the first mammals, before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, a plant grew in Gondwana, a huge continent in the Southern Hemisphere. Almost 280 million years later, in what is now Brazil, scientists...
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Astronauts on set: Space Station may host wave of TV shows, films
The Discovery Channel is seeking to cast about 10 would-be astronauts to compete for a seat on a real-life trip to the International Space Station, followed by live coverage of the launch of the winner...
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Jeff Bezos will go to space next month on Blue Origin’s first human trip
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, said Monday he will take a trip to space in June when Blue Origin, the Kent-based rocket company he founded, conducts its first human spaceflight. See the reaction when...
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Is Jeff Bezos an astronaut now?
Is the word “astronaut” something that describes where someone has been — outer space — or is it a job description like pilot? Blue Origin just pinned its astronaut wings on Jeff Bezos, but the FAA may...
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After docking, Russia’s new 23-ton module tilted the space station
The Russian section of the International Space Station gained a 23-ton science module Thursday. Hours later, the new arrival, named Nauka, took the station and its astronaut crew for a surprising ride.
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It was his day off. Then the Space Station went for a spin.
Zebulon Scoville and others at NASA’s mission control in Houston spent Thursday righting the International Space Station after a new Russian module unexpectedly fired its thrusters and spun the Space...
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Stashes First Mars Rock Sample
NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars has confirmed the successful collection of its first rock sample.
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Everett engineer among ‘very ordinary’ astronauts in tonight’s extraordinary...
One is a 29-year-old physician assistant living in Memphis, a cancer survivor with metal rods in her left leg to replace bones destroyed by a tumor.
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Who gets sick in space? Orbital tourists may offer better clues
The Inspiration4 mission, which launched Wednesday, shows how researchers can benefit from the new commercial space travel. The crew of four, none of whom is a professional astronaut, will spend time...
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