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NASA's Perseverance Rover Reaches the Dried-up Delta of an Ancient River

Delta was formed billions of years ago at the confluence of a river and crater lake. On its dried-up bottom remained clusters of rocks and prehistoric deposits. These are the best samples to study the emergence and demise of organic life.

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Scientists Plan to Create a New Message for Intelligent Aliens

The message will include information on the Earth's principles of communication, the basic mathematical and physical concepts, the structure of DNA, as well as people, and the Earth as a whole.

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The AX-1 Mission Successfully Returned to Earth

They flew more than 5 million kilometers, making about 240 orbits around the Earth. During the trip, the AX-1 mission supported 26 science payloads and technology demonstrations.

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NASA's Perseverance Rover Captures Solar Eclipse on Mars

The footage of the solar eclipse on the Red Planet was captured on April 2 as the rover moved toward the dried-up delta of an ancient Martian river that is located near the Jezero crater.

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CAPSTONE Lunar Cubesat Mission Is Ready for Launch

It is the first mission undertaken as part of the Gateway near-lunar orbital station program. CAPSTONE will have to test the orbit where the new space outpost of humankind is planned to be placed.

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Jupiter's Twin Was Spotted 17,000 Light-Years Away

This is the first time in the history of science that the telescope has been able to detect an extrasolar planet through a microlensing event. Kepler wasn't really designed for such observations.

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NASA May Still Rename the James Webb Space Telescope

Opponents of the name are calling for the project to be renamed because of the alleged bad reputation of James Webb himself. People remembered that during his time in the federal government, he fueled discrimination against the LGBT community.

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UAE's Hope Probe and NASA's MAVEN Mission to Share Scientific Data

NASA said it had reached an agreement to share scientific data between the Emirates Mars Mission and MAVEN mission teams. This should increase the scientific impact of both projects and help unlock the mysteries of the Red Planet.

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Hubble Discovers a Rapidly Growing Black Hole in the Early Universe

Until now, the galaxy called GNz7q has been hiding unnoticed in one of the most studied areas of the night sky – the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey-North (GOODS-North) field.

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Hubble Determines the Size of the Largest Icy Comet Nucleus

Comet C/2014 UN271 was discovered by astronomers Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein while analyzing images taken as part of the DES (Dark Energy Survey) from 2013 to 2019.

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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Captures Dry Ice on Mars

Dry ice is formed by the freezing of carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere. In midwinter, this frost reaches from the poles down to the middle latitudes, up to 50° latitude.

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SpaceX Sends the First All-Private Mission to the ISS

SpaceX is carrying out the mission with Axiom Space, a commercial aerospace company that plans to build and operate the first commercial ISS modules and the first international commercial space station.

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NASA Confirms the Existence of Over 5,000 Exoplanets

More specifically, the agency's exoplanet archive now documents 5,005 exoplanets, each with its own unique characteristics. The latest batch of exoplanets was discovered on March 21.

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Astronomers Discover the Farthest Star From Earth

The star is so far away that its light took 12.9 billion years to reach Earth, and it is now seen as it was when the universe was about 900 million years old, a mere 7% of its current age.

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NASA to Retire the ISS by Crashing It Into the Ocean by Late 2030

According to NASA's plan, in January 2031, the ISS will perform a series of maneuvers to descend slowly. The station will then enter the Earth's atmosphere, and its fragments should be crashed into the Pacific Ocean.

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NASA's Juno Probe Recorded the Sound of Jupiter's Moon

NASA launched the Juno probe into space in 2011. In almost five years, Juno reached Jupiter. In 2016, it began to study its surface and subsequently transmitted unique photos of the giant planet to Earth.

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NASA Postponed Astronaut Moon Landing to 2025

One of the reasons for the delay is the lack of funding. NASA initially planned to land astronauts on the Moon in 2024. However, NASA Administrator Nelson noted that Congress had not allocated enough money to develop a lunar lander.

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NASA Is Growing Chile Peppers Aboard the ISS

NASA notes that there is little research into fruit development in microgravity, even though they are vital for long-term space flights as a source of food and vitamins for the astronauts.

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NASA Is Seeking Spacesuit Proposals From the Private Sector

It was originally planned that the new spacesuits would be ready for test flights to the International Space Station (ISS) no later than March 31, 2023, and by the beginning of the Artemis 3 program.

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Nasa Announces Launch Date for the AX-1 Mission to the ISS

The crew includes the former NASA astronaut Michael López-Alegría, who will lead the mission, investors from the USA and Canada Larry Connor and Mark Pathy, as well as Israeli businessman Eytan Stibbe.

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NASA Postponed Flight to the Moon Due to Spacesuit Issues

Due to funding reduction and technical difficulties, the space agency will not have enough time to develop spacesuits for astronauts by 2024. It is now predicted that the suits will not be ready until April 2025 at the earliest.

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NASA Announced Plans to Send Next-Gen Research Helicopter to Mars

The successful demonstration of possible flights on Mars, together with the information collected by Ingenuity during its test flights, let NASA engineers move on to designing a next-generation flying spacecraft for exploring the Red Planet.

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NASA Shares a New Panorama of the Center of the Milky Way

It is noted that our own galaxy is difficult to study, as it is hidden by a fog of gas and dust. But the researchers were able to penetrate it precisely with the help of the X-ray observatory Chandra, which sees X-rays instead of visible light.

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NASA Suspends $2.9 Billion Lunar Contract With SpaceX

Initially, NASA was expected to select two of the three companies. Blue Origin and Dynetics have filed protests with the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO).

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NASA Chose SpaceX to Launch the First Two Modules of the Gateway Station

SpaceX is the first contractor to deliver cargo to the future Lunar Gateway station. Elon Musk's company will deliver the payload to lunar orbit, including research experiments, supplies for astronauts, equipment for collecting samples, and more.