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The world is hungry for renewable sources of energy, which has led some scientists to ask the question: what about the rotation of the Earth?
A new study…
The next stop for NASA’s asteroid-hopping spacecraft Lucy is a space rock named Donaldjohanson, an object researchers recently learned is about 150 million years old.
Lucy will fly past the three-mile-wide (five-kilometer-wide) asteroid on April…
Interferometry is a powerful tool in astronomy that links together one or more pairs of radio antennas, even those thousands of kilometers apart, to create a new and vastly more powerful “virtual” telescope called an…
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A SpaceX Raptor engine has exploded on a test stand in Texas, shows…
In Antarctica’s Palmer Station lab, scientists put wild-caught krill through a series of tests to see if they could identify the presence of a predator—in this case, Adélie penguins—by squirting a slurry of penguin poop into the…
NASA made a bet a few years ago that commercial companies could take scientific experiments to the moon on a lower budget than the agency could.
Last year, that was a bad bet. The first NASA-financed spacecraft missed the moon entirely. The second…
