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Cassini Probe Beams Back First Images of Saturn
NASA’s Cassini probe has survived its deep dive between the planet Saturn and its famous rings to beam back the first unprocessed images of the gas giant’s atmosphere (above). Cassini entered a space 1,900 miles above the planet’s surface and 200 miles below its rings, making it the first man-made…
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Congress Tells NASA: Get to Mars by 2033
Both chambers of US Congress have passed a bill that approves funding new funding for NASA and mandates that the aeronautics agency create a roadmap to get humans to Mars within 25 years. The NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2017 – put to Congress late last year and passed by the…
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NASA Discovers Seven Earth-Like Exoplanets
US astronautics organisation NASA has announced that it has found seven exoplanets orbiting a single star which are of of comparable size to Earth; three of the planets have orbits within what is known as the Goldilocks zone – which means possessing an orbit which may be capable of sustaining…
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Last Person on the Moon Passes Away
Eugene “Gene” Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, has died. Cernan commanded NASA’s Apollo 17 mission in 1972 and, upon landing on Earth’s Moon, logged more than 73 hours exploring the Lunar surface. “It is with very deep sadness that we share the loss of our beloved…
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Leaked NASA Paper Shows “Impossible” EmDrive Works
A NASA-developed, fuel-less spacecraft drive – dubbed “impossible” since it breaks Newton’s Third Law, and thus has been the source of much scepticism in the scientific community – has been shown to work in a paper that leaked earlier today (7th November). The paper, entitled “Measurement of Impulsive Thrust from…
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US and China Secretly Testing “Impossible” EmDrive Space Propulsion System
The controversial EmDrive, which is able to propel spacecraft without using fuel, has been proven to work, despite being dubbed “impossible” for breaking Newton’s Third Law, and now it seems that the world’s two biggest superpowers are in the process of testing the technology in space. According to the International…
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US Congress Mandates Manned Mars Mission within 25 Years
US Congress has passed a new bill that will see a manned Mars mission launched within the next quarter-of-a-century. The bipartisan bill grants NASA $19.5 billion in funding for the exploration of the Red Planet and mandates that the proposed manned mission must happen within the next 25 years. Also…
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“Impossible” EmDrive to be Tested in Space
A close relation to NASA’s EmDrive propulsion system – a fuelless electromagnetic thruster, the existence of which breaks Newton’s Third Law of Motion – is set to be tested in space. Developed by chemical engineer Guido Fetta, the Cannae Drive – which, for all intents and purposes, is indistinguishable from…
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Elon Musk Unveils “Mind Blowing” Mars Mission
Elon Musk has opened up to The Washington Post about his plans for a mission to Mars, describing the feat as “mind blowing.” Musk, who founded astronautics start-up SpaceX 14 years ago, has made no secret of his desire to colonise Mars, last year revealing an ambitious plan to nuke…
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Batman v Superman Designer Creating a Spacesuit for Elon Musk
Elon Musk’s astronautics startup SpaceX has enlisted the help of movie costume designer Jose Fernandez to design a flightsuit for future manned space missions. Fernandez, who cut his teeth on Gremlins, before moving into the superhero genre with Batman Returns, X-Men, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and The Avengers.…
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Amazon CEO Wants to Take Industry to Outer Space
Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of online retail giant Amazon, has spoken about the future of Blue Origin, his ambitious astronautics startup. While Elon Musk’s SpaceX has its sights set on colonising Mars, Bezos reveals that Blue Origin’s focus is much broader, and that its strategy will consider the Solar…
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Aerospace Scientists Says Goodbye to Philae Lander
The German scientists behind the intrepid Rosetta space mission have given up hope of re-establishing communications with its Philae lander. The probe, which landed on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, has been silent since July 2015, and the team from the German Aerospace Center are now pessimistic that it will be able to…
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UK Launches New Space Endeavour
The UK government has announced plans to launch a new National Space Policy in an effort make Great Britain the European hub for commercial space flight, The Independent reports. The government hopes that the initiative, which includes investment in space flight and microgravity research, will boost the country’s economy by…
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Elon Musk Fearful World War III Could Prevent His Mars Mission
Entrepreneur and budding supervillain Elon Musk, founder of electric car company Tesla and astronautics outfit SpaceX, fears that his audacious plan to force a habitable atmosphere on to Mars by nuking it into submission could be put at risk by the possibility of a Third World War. Speaking to GQ…
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NASA Confirms its “Impossible” EmDrive Thruster Works
NASA’s EMdrive – a fuelless electromagnetic propulsion system capable of pushing spacecraft to astronomical speeds once erroneously dubbed a real-world “warp drive” – has been branded “impossible” by the laws of physics, but the astronautics agency has confirmed during a second round of tests that, yes, it works. Scotty be…
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