NASA has selected two finalist concepts for a robotic mission planned to launch in the mid-2020s: a comet sample return mission and a drone-like rotorcraft that would explore potential landing […]
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Indicator of extraterrestrial life? First-time discovery of chemical compound Freon-40 in space
Using data captured by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) ALMA in Chile and the ROSINA instrument on ESA’s Rosetta mission, an international team of astronomers including scientists from Harvard […]
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Biomarker found in space complicates search for life on exoplanets
A molecule once thought to be a useful marker for life as we know it has been discovered around a young star and at a comet for the first time, […]
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Elon Musk adds $5 billion to his fortune
A recent funding round for SpaceX has made Elon Musk several billion dollars richer. SpaceX raised $351 million last month in a funding round that increased the company’s valuation to more than $21 billion. That, in turn, increased Musk’s net worth by $4 billion.
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Explaining An Oxygen Mystery on Comets
A Caltech chemical engineer who normally develops new ways to fabricate microprocessors in computers has figured out how to explain a nagging mystery in space — why comets expel oxygen […]
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Teledyne completes $789 million takeover of Britain’s e2v
Fresh off of winning a $10 million contract to supply infrared detectors for Europe’s Jupiter-bound Juice spacecraft, Teledyne Technologies has absorbed a British firm that builds space cameras.
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Europe’s Jupiter explorer mission moves to prototype production
The European Space Agency completed the preliminary design review for the Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer, giving a go-ahead to prime contractor Airbus and its partners to start building a prototype spacecraft to test systems for the challenging mission known simply as Juice.
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Elon Musk not enthusiastic about NASA authorization bill
“Perhaps there will be some future bill that makes a difference for Mars, but this is not it,” he wrote.
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Watching Landslides On A Comet
Sudden and short-lived outbursts were observed frequently during Rosetta’s two-year mission at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Although their exact trigger has been much debated, the outbursts seem to point back to the […]
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ESA affirms Open Access policy for images, videos and data
ESA today announced it has adopted an Open Access policy for its content such as still images, videos and selected sets of data. For more than two decades, ESA has […]
