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NASA Moon mission to cost $28 billion

NASA Moon mission to cost $28 billion

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 22 10:03 AM

WASHINGTON - NASA on Monday revealed its latest plan to return astronauts to the Moon in 2024, and estimated the cost of meeting that deadline at $28 billion, $16 billion of which would be spent on the lunar landing module. Read more »

Scientists find gas on Venus linked to life on Earth

Scientists find gas on Venus linked to life on Earth

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 15 05:45 AM

PARIS - The atmosphere of Venus contains traces of phosphine gas -- which on Earth can be attributed to living organisms -- scientists said on Monday, in a fresh insight into conditions on our nearest planetary neighbor. Read more »

Dwarf planet Ceres is an ocean world: study

Dwarf planet Ceres is an ocean world: study

Patrick Galey, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 11 06:55 AM

The dwarf planet Ceres -- long believed to be a barren space rock -- is an ocean world with reservoirs of seawater beneath its surface, the results of a major exploration mission showed Monday.   Read more »

Glaciers could have sculpted Mars valleys: study

Glaciers could have sculpted Mars valleys: study

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 04 06:08 AM

The question of whether ancient life could have existed on Mars centers on the water that once flowed there, but new research published Monday suggests that many of the Red Planet's valleys were gouged by icy glaciers, not rivers. Read more »

Endeavor’s Splashdown

Endeavor’s Splashdown

Bill Ingalls, NASA/AFP
Updated as of Aug 03 09:08 AM

This NASA photo released on Sunday shows the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft as it lands with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida.  Read more »

NASA’s Mars perseverance rover launch: When to watch

NASA’s Mars perseverance rover launch: When to watch

Kenneth Chang, The New York Times
Posted at Jul 30 02:41 PM

On Thursday, NASA hopes to send a robotic rover and a small experimental helicopter on a journey of 6 1/2 months to the red planet. It follows two earlier launches by the United Arab Emirates and China.   Read more »

LOOK: Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE

LOOK: Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE

Sergei Gapon, AFP
Posted at Jul 14 10:00 AM

A stork stands on a power lines pillar as the comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) is seen in the sky above the village of Kreva, some 100 km northwest of Minsk, Belarus early Monday.  Read more »

To boldly go: NASA launches Lunar Loo challenge

To boldly go: NASA launches Lunar Loo challenge

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 26 08:55 AM

WASHINGTON, United States - Everyone poops.Including astronauts, who have since the early space era found ways to do their business in near-zero gravity -- from the Apollo missions when waste management was, in NASA's words, "a plastic bag which was taped to the buttocks to capture feces," to the more advanced toilets of the International Space Station that use fan-driven suction systems. Read more »

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