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Under a new deal with the British space agency, the British spacecraft could go to Mars in half the time using a nuclear propulsion engine built by Rolls-Royce. The aerospace company hopes the nuclear-powered engine can help astronauts reach Mars in three to four months, twice as fast as the …

Scientists know that millions of bacteria and other micro-organisms, which live with our courage, play an important role in health, affecting the risk of developing obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes and other conditions. But now a major new international study has found that the composition of these microorganisms, collectively …

Zoom in / When JunoCam received this image on February 2, 2017, NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew directly over Jupiter’s South Pole. NASA / JPL-Caltech / SRRI / MSSS / John Landino NASA has announced that it will expand the targets of its two interplanetary explorers over the past decade – …

A subset scan of its nearly hundreds of vertebrae – the size of some grapefruit – showed that the shark had died at the age of 46. Researchers estimated that Maggie’s age was about 88 to 100 years, suggesting that her sample was approx. “Middle-aged,” Dr. Shi. Shimada said. They …

US President-elect Joe Biden speaks with supporters at a community event at MacDonald Ranch in Henderson, Nevada. Image by Planetary Society / Gauge Skidmore. Shortly before last week at 4:00 am (12:00 UTC) (January 7, 2021), Congress confirmed Democrat Jn Biden as the winner of the United States presidential election. …