Late this month, ESA's Mars Express will make the closest flyby yet of the Red Planet's largest moon Phobos, skimming past at only 45 km above its surface. The flyby on 29 December will be so close and fast that Mars Express will not be ...
NASA wants to find asteroids that could threaten Earth and figure out what to do about them and it wants your help doing it. The space agency today issued an asteroid-focused Grand Challenge, calling on scientists and citizen scientists ...
NASA's proposed $17.7 billion budget includes plans to capture and redirect an asteroid into orbit around Earth so astronauts can study it. Ultimately, the project looks to learn more about the makeup of asteroids in an attempt to protect ...
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Scientists at the University of Washington are working on a rocket that they say could enable astronauts to reach Mars in just 30 days. NASA has estimated that, using current technology, a round-trip human mission to Mars would take more ...
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Widespread adoption of 3D printing technology may not be that far away, according to a Gartner report predicting that enterprise-class 3D printers will be available for less than $2,000 by 2016. With the technology set to become less ...
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The robotic arm on the International Space Station released the SpaceX Dragon early this morning, sending the capsule on its way home. The Dragon capsule, loaded with about 2,600 pounds of used hardware, completed experiments and trash, ...
Astronauts on the International Space Station began unloading cargo from the SpaceX Dragon capsule on Monday, a day after the commercially delivered capsule was attached to the station. Tom Marshburn, a space station astronaut and flight ...
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After a successful liftoff of the SpaceX Dragon on Friday, the company's engineers were working on a glitch in the spacecraft's thruster system, delaying a Saturday rendezvous with the International Space Station. NASA reported earlier ...
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A new company is looking to launch spacecraft to mine asteroids and one day act as an outer space gas station and an oasis for human colonies in space. Deep Space Industries Inc. announced Tuesday that it hopes to launch a fleet of small ...
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Iconic video game company Atari has filed for bankruptcy protection in the U.S. in an effort to separate operations from parent company Atari SA, which is based on France and has also filed for bankruptcy. Atari, Atari Interactive and two ...
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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully blasted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Sunday night, marking a new chapter in America's space program. The rocket, carrying the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, lifted off at 8:35 p.m. ...
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Computerworld - A robotic arm onboard the International Space Station reached out and grabbed hold of the SpaceX Dragon cargo ship today, attaching the commercial craft to the station. The station's Canadarm captured the spacecraft at ...
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Sentinel aims to go asteroid hunting 11 Jul 2012 The first privately funded deep-space mission will map the inner solar system and track dangerous asteroids. Watchful eye:Sentinel will track near-Earth asteroids A proposed space ...