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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has unveiled a four-member crew for its upcoming mission around the moon. The Artemis II mission which would be NASA’s first crewed voyage around the moon in over half a century includes the first woman, the first person of colour, and the first Canadian. Reid Wiseman, […]
Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says. A once-every-four-years scientific assessment found recovery in progress, more than 35 years after every nation in the world agreed to stop producing chemicals that […]
The world’s largest and most powerful space telescope rocketed away Saturday on a high-stakes quest to behold light from the first stars and galaxies and scour the universe for hints of life. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope soared from French Guiana on South America’s northeastern coast, riding a European Ariane rocket into the Christmas […]
Time magazine has named Elon Musk, chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, as its 2021 Person of the Year, calling him “the man who aspires to save our planet and get us a new one to inhabit.” Edward Felsenthal, Time’s editor in chief, wrote in a profile of Musk on Monday that the magazine’s […]
NASA will stand down from commanding its Mars missions until mid-October while Earth and Mars are on opposite sides of the sun, the US space agency said on Tuesday. NASA said while engineers would stop sending commands, the missions would continue collecting data about Mars during the period, called Mars solar conjunction, which happens every […]
Billions of years ago, Mars had rivers and seas on its surface, but they have all disappeared since then. The planet may have been left dry after its crust irreversibly sucked up most of that ancient water. Many studies have suggested that Mars lost its water at the same time as it lost its atmosphere, […]
NASA’s latest Mars rover is approaching its final descent to the surface. Perseverance, the largest vehicle ever to attempt to land on the Red Planet, is due to touch down on 18 February. Landing on Mars is difficult: about 60 per cent of the missions that have tried it to date have failed. Perseverance will […]
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