Asteroid Discovery Suggests Ingredients for Life on Earth Came From Space

Asteroid Discovery Suggests Ingredients for Life on Earth Came From Space

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Two organic compounds essential for living organisms have been found in samples retrieved from the asteroid Ryugu, buttressing the notion that some ingredients crucial for the advent of life arrived on Earth aboard rocks from space billions of years ago. Scientists said on Tuesday they detected uracil and niacin in…

NASA’s Hubble Telescope Captures Collision of DART With Asteroid Dimorphos

NASA’s Hubble Telescope Captures Collision of DART With Asteroid Dimorphos

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA’s) Hubble Space Telescope captured a series of photos of asteroid Dimorphos when it was deliberately hit by a 1,200-pound NASA spacecraft called DART on September 26, 2022, according to their statement. Hubble‘s time-lapse movie of the aftermath of DART’s collision reveals surprising and remarkable,…

NASA Formally Retires Mars InSight Lander 4 Years After Its Arrival on Red Planet

NASA Formally Retires Mars InSight Lander 4 Years After Its Arrival on Red Planet

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NASA has formally retired its Mars InSight lander, the first robotic probe specially designed to study the deep interior of a distant world, four years after it arrived on the surface of the red planet, the US space agency announced on Wednesday. Mission controllers at NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) near…

NASA Spacecrafts at Mars Record Biggest Meteor Strikes, Impact Craters Yet

NASA Spacecrafts at Mars Record Biggest Meteor Strikes, Impact Craters Yet

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Two NASA spacecraft at Mars — one on the surface and the other in orbit — have recorded the biggest meteor strikes and impact craters yet. The high-speed barrages last year sent seismic waves rippling thousands of miles across Mars, the first ever detected near the surface of another planet,…

ISRO to Conduct First Test Flight of Gaganyaan Mission in February Next Year

ISRO to Conduct First Test Flight of Gaganyaan Mission in February Next Year

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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will start a series of test flights for India’s maiden human space flight mission from February next year, a senior official said on Thursday. The space agency also plans to deploy the heavy lift Chinook helicopter and the C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft for testing…

SpaceX Capsule Leaves ISS to Bring 4 Astronauts Back to Earth After 6 Months

SpaceX Capsule Leaves ISS to Bring 4 Astronauts Back to Earth After 6 Months

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The fourth long-duration astronaut team launched by SpaceX to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA departed the orbiting outpost on Friday to begin their flight back to Earth, capping a science mission of nearly six months. The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying three US NASA astronauts and an Italian crewmate…

NASA-Funded Technology for Future Missions May Charge EVs in 5 Minutes on Earth

NASA-Funded Technology for Future Missions May Charge EVs in 5 Minutes on Earth

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A new NASA-funded technology for future space missions may charge an electric car in just five minutes on Earth, paving the way for increased adoption of such vehicles, the US space agency said. Researchers at Purdue University, US developed the Flow Boiling and Condensation Experiment (FBCE) to enable two-phase fluid…

Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Has “Almost All” Ingredients for Life to Survive: Study

Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Has “Almost All” Ingredients for Life to Survive: Study

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The search for alien life just got more interesting as a team of scientists recently discovered new evidence suggesting that Saturn’s moon Enceladus has oceans that have all the basic requirements and materials needed for life to survive. According to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National…

Can We Really Deflect an Asteroid by Crashing Into It? Nobody Knows, but We Are Excited to Try

Can We Really Deflect an Asteroid by Crashing Into It? Nobody Knows, but We Are Excited to Try

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NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft is designed to be a one hit wonder. It will end its days by crashing into an asteroid at 24,000 kilometres per hour on September 26. Launched from Earth in November 2021, DART is about the size of a bus and was created…