In its two years and three months of exploring the Red Planet, NASA’s Perseverance Rover has…
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A new NASA study will put people through a brain-shaking ride in the Kraken
Pilots can experience forces while flying that punish their bodies, and they can also find themselves…
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A gassy black hole might have burped out the largest cosmic explosion ever
Humans might fear the nuclear bomb, but it is not even a blip against what the…
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NASA is headed for the moon next week, and it’s bringing lots of weird stuff
A rocket stocked with scientific instruments, technological gadgets, and… bitcoin (literally) is about to head for…
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How hundreds of college students are helping solve a centuries-old mystery about the sun
A team of more than 1,000 astronomers and college students just took a step closer to…
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A tiny NASA CubeSat just set a big data speed record with lasers
A golden, tissue box-sized satellite has set a new record for the fastest data transfer rate…
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$130,000 could buy you a Michelin-star meal with a view of the stars
This year marks the 250th anniversary of the first human hopping aboard a hot air balloon. But…
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NASA hopes its snake robot can search for alien life on Saturn’s moon Enceladus
At least 83 moons orbit Saturn, and experts believe its most reflective one could harbor life…
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Robot plants could be used to grow infrastructure in space from scratch
This article was original featured on MIT Press.This article is excerpted from Dario Floreano and Nicola…
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Watch NASA’s bizarre and bulbous Super Guppy cargo plane touch down in Alabama
After over half a century of loyal service, the world’s last remaining Super Guppy aircraft continues…
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These wearables might protect astronauts from space ‘death spirals’
There’s an aviation term called the “death spiral”—when pilots’ skewed sensory perceptions contradict the accurate readings…
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Name a better duo than NASA’s hard-working Mars rover and helicopter
On April 19, 2021, a little more than a century after the Wright Brothers’ first test…
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