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Osiris-Rex: NASA returns sample from asteroid Bennu to Earth | Science & Tech News
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A NASA capsule carrying the largest sample ever collected from an asteroid has returned to Earth. The capsule, which landed in the Utah desert at 3.52pm, contained around 250g of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu as part of NASA’s Osiris-Rex mission. Experts say the carbon-rich, near-Earth asteroid serves as a time capsule from…
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NASA taking ‘concrete action’ to explore UFOs after landmark report | Science & Tech News
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NASA is taking “concrete action” to explore the potential threat of UFOs following the release of a landmark report into the phenomena. The agency’s administrator, Bill Nelson, said it was time to “shift the conversation from sensationalist to science”, having received the recommendations of an independent panel tasked with looking into years of sightings. Scientists…
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Why NASA report is significant – and what it means for search for extraterrestrial life | Science & Tech News
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If you believe there are UFOs skimming over rooftops, or alien remains stored in secret storerooms in the New Mexico desert, today’s NASA briefing wasn’t for you. But in terms of how governments and scientists manage the public fascination with extraterrestrials, today’s report from NASA is a significant one. Scientists release findings on ‘UAPs’ –…
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NASA manages to produce oxygen on Mars | Science & Tech News
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NASA has produced enough oxygen on Mars to sustain an astronaut for a few hours in a world-first experiment. The Perseverance rover, which landed on the red planet in February 2021, has been periodically burning through the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide to generate small amounts of oxygen for more than two years. Using a device no…
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Crashed Russian spacecraft likely cause of new crater on the moon – as NASA releases images | Science & Tech News
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NASA has found a new crater on the moon likely caused by the impact of a Russian spacecraft that crashed last month. Luna-25, a robot lander, met its untimely end as it looked to touch down on the lunar surface’s south pole. Russia had hoped it would spend a year collecting samples of rock and…
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NASA exploring potential for supersonic passenger jet which could fly from London to New York in 90 minutes | Science & Tech News
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NASA is exploring the potential for a supersonic jet that could take commercial passengers from London to New York in 90 minutes. The US space agency’s Quesst mission was launched in 2016, primarily to design an aircraft with technology that reduces the loudness of a sonic boom: that’s what we hear on the ground when…
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NASA releases stunning ultraviolet images of Mars | Science & Tech News
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NASA has shared two stunning ultraviolet images of Mars. The pictures, taken by the space agency’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) mission, were taken at different points along the planet’s orbit of the sun. One was snapped in July 2022 and one in January 2023, when the planet was at the near opposite end…
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NASA releases new images of Uranus which could unravel mystery about planet | Science & Tech News
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NASA has released stunning new images of Uranus which could help unravel a mysterious feature of the planet. The images, taken using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, show the planet’s rings in more detail than they have ever been seen before. Though the rings have been captured in previous images, these are said to be…
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‘Runaway’ black hole tearing through universe creates ‘astonishing’ trail of stars, say NASA | Science & Tech News
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A runaway black hole is tearing through the universe, leaving a trail of stars in its wake that’s never been seen before, NASA says. The supermassive black hole weighs as much as 20 million suns – and it’s travelling so fast that if it were in our solar system, it could travel from Earth to…
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NASA names Artemis II crew for trip around the moon | Science & Tech News
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NASA has named a team of four astronauts who will embark on a historic venture around the moon ahead of a return to the lunar surface. Artemis II will see the crew board the Orion spacecraft, carried by the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket – the most powerful ever built – for a flyby of…