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UAE lunar rover will test 1st artificial intelligence on the moon with Canada

Canadian company Mission Control Space Services has an interplanetary test forthcoming: Proving its artificial intelligence on a moon rover mission.

NASA astronaut Sally Ride statue to be unveiled in Los Angeles on July 4

The first U.S. woman in space will be honored with a monument outside the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum. The same team made another Ride statue in 2022.

Watch the 1st half-lit first quarter moon of 2023 rise tonight

On Saturday, Jan. 28, skywatchers will be able to see the year's 1st first quarter moon, when the moon appears to be half-lit from the perspective of Earth.

European Space Agency seeks more use of logo, mission patches on merchandise

The European Space Agency wants to see its logo on your t-shirt, cap or collectible. The intergovernmental organization has now made it easier to gain permission to use the ESA brand.

Watch the moon eclipse Uranus tonight

On Saturday (Jan. 28), the moon will cover Uranus in the night sky during a lunar occultation for some regions of Earth. In other places, the two bodies will share a close approach to one another.

Return to the Rocinante with a new 12-issue comic series, 'The Expanse: Dragon Tooth'

Boom! Studios is set to release "The Expanse: Dragon Tooth" comic series in April.

Private Peregrine moon lander completes testing ahead of landmark lunar launch

Astrobotic's Peregrine moon lander wrapped up testing to prepare for spaceflight and is now waiting to be shipped to its Florida launch site.

It’s Already Hard Enough to Block a Single Star’s Light to See its Planets. But Binary Stars? Yikes

Detecting exoplanets was frontier science not long ago. But now we’ve found over 5,000 of them, and we expect to find them around almost every star. The next step is to characterize these planets more fully in hopes of finding ones that might support life. Directly imaging them will be part of that effort.

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2 big pieces of space junk nearly collide in orbital 'bad neighborhood'

Satellite monitoring and collision detection firm LeoLabs spotted a near-miss between a defunct Soviet rocket body and dead spy satellite that passed within about 20 feet (6 meters) of one another.

'Dead Space' returns to haunt your dreams with new next-generation remake

Motive Studio and Electronic Arts releases the new remastered edition of "Dead Space" today

Watch an SUV-sized asteroid zoom by Earth in close shave flyby in this time-lapse video

Watch asteroid 2023 BU make a close flyby of Earth in images shared by the Virtual Telescope Project taken when the rock was just 13,670 miles (22,000 kilometers) from the surface.

Watch NASA test potentially revolutionary 3D-printed rocket engine (video)

This futuristic engine could save lots of propellant on interplanetary journeys, perhaps allowing NASA to explore the solar system more efficiently.

NASA and DARPA Will be Testing a Nuclear Rocket in Space

The coming decades of space exploration will see astronauts return to the Moon, the first crewed missions to Mars, and robotic missions to the outer Solar System (among other things). These missions will leverage innovative technologies that allow faster transits, long-duration stays, and sustainable living far from Earth. To this end, NASA and other space agencies are investigating nuclear applications, especially where energy and propulsion are concerned. Many of these proposals have been on the books since the early space age and have been thoroughly validated.

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Europe Will be Building the Transfer Arm for the Mars Sample Return Mission

Now that the Perseverance rover has dropped off ten regolith and rock sample tubes for a future sample return mission to retrieve, the plans for such a mission are coming together. The mission is a joint venture between NASA and the European Space Agency, and ESA has agreed to build a 2.5-meter-long robotic arm to pick up tubes and then transfer them to a rocket for the first-ever Mars samples to be brought to Earth.

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Europe's JUICE mission to Jupiter's moons preparing for April 14 launch

Europe's mission to explore three icy moons of Jupiter is all set to begin its voyage to the outer solar system.

China wants to launch over 200 spacecraft in 2023

China last year performed 64 orbital rocket launches and finished building its own space station, but the country is planning an even busier year for 2023.

Galactic collisions act as a 'cosmic delivery service' for hungry monster black holes

Astronomers may finally know what delivers the gas that feeds the powerful phenomena surrounding active black holes.

Celestron SkyMaster 12x60 binocular review

An excellent choice for entry-level astronomers the Celestron SkyMaster 12x60 binos are great for long-range terrestrial observing.

NASA's Geotail spacecraft ends 30-year mission studying Earth's magnetosphere

After 31 years in orbit, NASA's magnetosphere-studying mission Geotail has come to end after the spacecraft's final data recorder failed.

Celestron NexStar 4SE telescope review

The NexStar 4SE is a good scope for beginner astronomers — quick to set up and easy to use, automatically finding night sky objects for that instant wow factor.


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