Scientists and engineers seem to have difficulty coming up with estimated mission timelines for their space exploration projects. Most don’t even reach the first day after succumbing to one form or another of technical failure, sometimes resulting in a dramatic fireball. Others have missions that extend orders of magnitude longer than they were originally designed for. Such is the case for India’s first mission to the Red Planet, which finally seems to have run out of fuel eight years into its original six-month mission.
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Plutonium: Facts about the radioactive element
Plutonium is the 94th element in the periodic table and one of the most dangerous elements on Earth.
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How to use the James Webb Space Telescope to hunt for life around white dwarfs
Many white dwarfs host planets that may lie within the habitable zones of those stars and may even support life. Now, scientists have outlined how to hunt for that possible life.
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Hubble Space Telescope shows 'fan-like spray' of gas and dust surrounding young star
Warm-colored clouds surround the young star at the center of a recently published image from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Relive Firefly's 1st successful rocket launch with highlight reel (video)
Firefly successfully sent its Alpha rocket into orbit on Oct. 1, and NASA and the U.S. Space Force have already signed on for future missions.
Space Force telescope will hunt foreign spacecraft, asteroids and comets too
The military surveillance telescope is permanently relocated to Australia after a few years of testing in the United States.
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The Pacific Ocean Will be Gone in 300 Million Years as the World's Continents Drift and Combine
Today, the Earth’s seven continents are distributed across the surface, with North and South America occupying one hemisphere, Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia occupying the other, and Antarctica sitting alone around the South Pole. However, these continents were arranged in entirely different configurations throughout Earth’s history. On occasion, they formed supercontinents like Gondwana (ca. 550 to 180 million) and Pangaea (ca. 335 to 200 million years ago) that were surrounded by “superoceans.”
Stunning Hunter's Moon mesmerizes skywatchers all over the world (photos)
The Hunter's full moon rose above some of the world's greatest landmarks this weekend appearing larger and more orange than usual.
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Novel superconducting magnet thrusters to be tested out on ISS
A New Zealand research institute and U.S. commercial firm Nanoracks will send a superconducting magnet technology demonstrator to the International Space Station to test a novel type of propulsion.
Ancient Mars microbes triggered climate change that made it hard for them to survive
Ancient microbes triggered a climate change on Mars that made the planet less habitable, which may have ultimately led to their extinction, a new climate modeling study suggests.
China fuels final space station module ahead of launch
The third and final module for China’s space station has been filled with propellant in preparation for its journey to orbit later this month.
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Thanks to Hayabusa 2’s Samples, Scientists can Track the History of Ryugu Earlier in the History of the Solar System
When Huyabusa2 returned a sample of Ryugu, a Near Earth Asteroid, to Earth in December 2020, it was sure to light a bonfire of material science research. We’re starting to see the beginning of that, and a new study led by a scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has found a particular grain in the sample Huyabusa2 collected that shows how the asteroid formed.
First ever map of Milky Way's galactic graveyard revealed
The first ever map of the Milky Way's "graveyard" reveals the galaxy sometimes ejects the corpses of its deceased stars, leaving them roaming the universe as rogue black holes and neutron stars.
