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Mars digger is declared dead after failing to burrow deep enough

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NASA Insight’s ‘Mole’ bites the dust: Mars digger is declared dead after failing to burrow deep enough into the Red Planet to take its temperature after two years InSight arrived on Mars in November 2018 with a range of scientific instruments Instruments included a seismometer, temperature probe and weather station  German scientist have been trying … Read more

Nasa finds there are far fewer galaxies than previously thought

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Nasa finds there are far fewer galaxies than first thought, with numbers in the billions rather than trillions Previous estimates suggestsed there were around two trillion galaxies But new data from Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft suggests this isn’t the case Instead, Nasa now estimates that there are hundreds of billions of galaxies By Shivali Best … Read more

Nasa finds there are far fewer galaxies than first thought

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Nasa finds there are far fewer galaxies than first thought, with numbers in the billions rather than trillions Previous estimates suggestsed there were around two trillion galaxies But new data from Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft suggests this isn’t the case Instead, Nasa now estimates that there are hundreds of billions of galaxies By Shivali Best … Read more

SpaceX’s Dragon cargo ship makes first Atlantic splashdown

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SpaceX Dragon cargo ship loaded with science experiments, a case of wine, and live mice, has made its first ever splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean, NASA confirmed.  The spaceship autonomously undocked from the International Space Station on Tuesday, January 12 after a 36 day stay attached to the orbiting laboratory.  Among the experiments on the … Read more

NASA prepares to fire up engines on ‘the most powerful rocket ever built’

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Space Launch System test: NASA prepares to fire up engines on ‘the most powerful rocket ever built’ that can reach 17,500mph and will one day carry astronauts to Mars The $18 billion Space Launch System is the largest rocket engine ever built The SLS will fly astronauts to the Moon and Mars as part of … Read more

Mars’s answer to the Grand Canyon probed by NASA

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By Ryan Morrison  A trio of spaceships from Earth are on their way to Mars in search of life and to better understand the atmosphere and environment of the Red Planet. Orbiter missions from the United Arab Emirates and China, as well as rovers from the Chinese and American space agencies are due to arrive … Read more

Nasa SphereX telescope to search space for Big Bang clues from 2024

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NASA reveals plans to launch SphereX telescope in 2024 to search for clues about the Big Bang and signs of life beyond Earth Nasa’s SphereX telescope will launch between June 2024 and April 2025 During its two-year mission, SphereX will map the entire sky four times The mission aims to find evidence of what happened straight … Read more

Nasa to launch SphereX telescope into space in 2024 to search for clues about the Big Bang

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NASA reveals plans to launch SphereX telescope in 2024 to search for clues about the Big Bang and signs of life beyond Earth Nasa’s SphereX telescope will launch between June 2024 and April 2025 During its two-year mission, SphereX will map the entire sky four times The mission aims to find evidence of what happened straight … Read more

Spaceships from China, the US and UAE are more than halfway to Mars

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A trio of spaceships from Earth are on their way to Mars in search of life and to better understand the atmosphere and environment of the Red Planet. Orbiter missions from the United Arab Emirates and China, as well as rovers from the Chinese and American space agencies are due to arrive by the middle … Read more