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Blue Origin’s New Glenn makes a crater-sized dent in Artemis plans
Explosion wrecks rocket and pad, leaving NASA's lunar ambitions looking less than launch-ready
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NASA reveals next steps to build permanent moon base
'The Moon Base will be America's and humanity's first outpost on another celestial world,' said NASA administrator Jared Isaacman.
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Mosquitoes Can Learn to Love Insect Repellant, Scientist Reveal
The chemical DEET works—but only until it doesn't.
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Forecasters predict below-average hurricane season, advise against complacency
Forecasters say expected El Niño should temper hurricanes in Atlantic, urge preparedness.
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SpaceX’s Starship rockets grounded pending investigation after test flight
The spacecraft continued around the world, releasing 20 mock satellites before ending the mission as planned with a fiery splashdown in the Indian Ocean
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NASA lays out moon base plans with landers, buggies and drones
For next year's Artemis III, another team of astronauts will practise docking NASA's Orion capsule in orbit around Earth with the lunar landers being developed for crews by Blue Origin…
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Chandrayaan-2 detects possible presence of subsurface ice near south pole of moon
Scientists used observations from the Chandrayaan-2’s Dual Frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar (DFSAR) payload
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Daily Quiz | On renewable energy technologies
As the aftershocks in the war on Iran continue to affect fossil fuel supplies, here’s a quiz on renewable energy technologies.
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Are robots nearing their ChatGPT moment? – podcast
Last month at Beijing’s half marathon, a robot named Lightning beat the human world record by nearly seven minutes. It’s the latest in a string of AI-powered milestones that have…
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“Little red dot” in early Universe is a naked supermassive black hole
The black hole accounts for over two-thirds the mass of the object it inhabits.
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US Space Force confirms SpaceX will build sensor-to-shooter targeting network
"We aren’t trading speed for scale; we are demanding both," says the military's program manager.
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Swift thinking buys NASA observatory a little more time before re-entry
Rescue mission might have until the end of summer after science operations halted