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- Jan- 2022 -15 JanuaryScience
Landmark Webb Observatory Is Now Officially a Telescope
After several tense days of unfurling and clicking its various parts into place, the biggest and most sophisticated space telescope…
Read More » - 14 JanuaryScience
To Study the Next Earth, NASA May Need to Throw Some Shade
The HabEx team has proposed a 4-meter telescope paired with a coronagraph and a star shade 52 meters in diameter.…
Read More » - 14 JanuaryScience
It’s Time for a Global Ban on Destructive Antisatellite Testing
In November, Russia ignited an international uproar with a weapon test that launched an interceptor against a defunct military satellite.…
Read More » - 14 JanuaryScience
A Staple of Sci-Fi Space Travel Will Likely Remain a Fantasy
In Poul Anderson’s 1970 novel Tau Zero, a starship crew seeks to travel to the star Beta Virginis in hopes…
Read More » - 14 JanuaryScience
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Chokes on Mars Pebbles while Collecting a Rock Sample
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has some rocks stuck in its throat. Perseverance drilled and collected its sixth Red Planet rock sample…
Read More » - Oct- 2021 -13 October
Blue Origin Launches William Shatner and Crew to the Final Frontier
VAN HORN, Texas — William Shatner has boldly gone where no 90-year-old has ever gone before. The famed “Star Trek”…
Read More » - 13 October
Planetary Defense Is Good—but Is Planetary Offense Better?
Less than eight years from now, on Friday the 13th of April 2029, a 370-meter-wide asteroid called Apophis will pass…
Read More » - Aug- 2021 -6 AugustScience
NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Foiled in First Attempt to Grab Rock for Return to Earth
Editor’s Note (8/6/21): Shortly after this story was published, NASA officials announced that data received from Perseverance suggested that no…
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