(Newser) – In the early hours of Tuesday morning, no object in space about 27,000 miles through Earth. Budget 20 has been given the descriptive designation of “2020 SO”, and while no one knows for sure what it is, NASA researchers have made an interesting guess. In short, they think …
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Last October. 20, 200 million miles from an epidemic, a planet plagued by civil strife, and in America, a controversial election, NASA accomplished one of those feats that has become famous for the space agency. A space probe called OSIRIS-REX arrived and touched a planet called Bennu and collected a …
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Arizona State Senator candidate Captain Mark Kelly has an impressive resume. He flew combat missions during Operation Desert Storm. Twice as a mission commander he flew four times on the space shuttle. However, Kelly’s views on space policy, a topic he should be familiar with, given his previous occupation, are …
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File photo: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket pad 39A with the seventh batch of SpaceX broadband network satellites took off on April 22, 2020, at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA. Ritter / Joe Skipper (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s SpaceX has won a 14 149 million (11 114.8 million) contract to …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Dark matter, the mysterious invisible material that makes up most galaxies, including our own galaxy, is again confusing scientists, with new observations of distant galaxies contradicting current understanding of its nature. An undated NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the giant Galaxy Cluster MACSJ1206. NASA …
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