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Engineers at NASA and Lockheed Martin Space have performed the difficult task of measuring the fuel supply of the oldest Mars orbiting spacecraft without the use of a fuel gauge, after calculations indicated the probe may be close to running on empty.

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A new NASA animation shows what the sky over Earth would look like to humans if we had evolved to see high-energy gamma-ray light rather than just the visible light spectrum. The …

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Boeing’s new astronaut taxi won’t launch on its first crewed mission next month after all. Boeing and NASA had been targeting the second half of April for Crew Flight Test (CFT), …

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SpaceX plans to launch another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit and land a rocket at sea today (March 24), and you can watch the action live. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket topped with 56 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off at …

CNN

Artificial environment engineering company Interstellar Lab believes it has the solution for growing crops on Mars — the Nutritional Closed-Loop Eco-Unit System or “NUCLEUS.” Interstellar Lab.

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The geomagnetic storm peaked as a severe G4 on the 5-grade scale used by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to assess the severity of space weather events. The storm’s unexpected ferocity not …

CNN

Near-Earth objects are asteroids and comets with orbits that bring them to within 120 million miles of the sun, and this means they can “circulate through the Earth’s orbital neighborhood,” according to NASA.

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A distant spiral galaxy boasts bright streams of star-forming gas dripping from its central disk like tentacles of a jellyfish in a new Hubble Space Telescope photo. Located over 800 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus, …

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A surprise solar storm supercharged auroras across the U.S. and Europe last night (March 23), with sightings of the colorful displays reported from as far south as New Mexico and Arizona. The storm, classified as a severe G4 on the 5-grade scale used …

Phys.Org

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is cruising back to Earth with a sample it collected from the rocky surface of asteroid Bennu. When its sample capsule parachutes down into the Utah desert on Sept. 24, OSIRIS-REx will become the United States’ first-ever …