Space
Five firms aim to power moon-orbiting way station to deep space
Deep Space Gateway is NASA’s planned outpost at the moon for launches to other worlds. The agency has awarded 5 contracts to start working out how to power it
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Space
NASA insists it is going to Mars, but it really can’t afford to
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Physics
Solar eclipse will reveal the roiling fog of plasma we call home
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Space
Nuclear reactors on rockets may fuel future crewed trips to Mars
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Earth
NASA’s planetary protection officer will defend Mars, not Earth
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Environment
Buzz of drones is more annoying than any other kind of vehicle
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Space
First close-ups of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot from Juno flyby
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Space
Kepler finds 219 new exoplanets and 10 are rocky and Earth-like
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The bandwidth black hole that will kill Elon Musk’s Mars dream
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NASA is right to pay homage to the living for the first time
Naming a solar probe after astrophysicist Eugene Parker breaks the space agency’s tradition of only honouring the dead. That’s a good thing, says Geraint Lewis
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Space
SpaceX launches first reused Dragon capsule full of research
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Life
Mars rover sees signs of microbe-friendly layers in ancient lake
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Space
Amazing pictures show cyclones swirling above Jupiter’s poles
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Space
No crew planned for NASA’s first Space Launch System mission
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