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In Photos: SpaceX Dazzles the World With Unreal Booster Catch

We dispatched photographers Pauline Acalin and Tom Cross to shoot Starship's liftoff and attempt to catch the massive Super Heavy booster with Mechazilla, the launch tower's chopsticks arms. An idea that seemed outlandish up until the livestream said they were going for it, minutes after a surprisingly routine liftoff. So routine that the launch of Starship itself became an afterthought when the smoke cleared.


October 15, 2024
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Burning Questions for the Lead Scientist Behind Europa Clipper

We want to understand if there is liquid water, where that liquid water exists, and whether the chemistry seem conducive to life. Do we expect redox potential in the ocean—oxidants and reductants—and where might we go to search? How might we do that search in the future, with what techniques?


October 11, 2024
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NASA Deflected an Asteroid — ESA Launched a Mission to Study the Impact

DART was the first-ever planetary defense test, one that illustrated that scientists and engineers could rearrange the cosmos to make it more habitable for humans. And this October, the European Space Agency is going to check NASA’s homework: it’s launching its own mission to Dimorphos.


October 4, 2024
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Inside the Wargame Where Earth Faces a Killer Asteroid

While DART was on its way to Dimorphos, experts had gathered at its birthplace, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, for a role-­playing game. Everyone assumed the same character roles they had in real life. Their realm was not mythical, but terrestrial; their nemesis was not a dragon, but an Earthbound asteroid.


October 1, 2024
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Polaris Dawn is Home After Mission to Advance Human Spaceflight

The Polaris Dawn mission has returned to Earth safely after achieving a few unprecedented feats in orbit.


September 17, 2024
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We Visited NASA's Mars-Bound ESCAPADE Probes

NASA says that over billions of years, a relentless flow of particles from the Sun - solar wind - has stripped away the Martian atmosphere, causing surface water to evaporate. The agency wants to find out how this happened and utilize ESCAPADE to further interrogate if Mars was once habitable.


September 10, 2024
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