NASA Uncovers Life’s Building Blocks in Asteroid Bennu’s Pristine Sample
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino acids and nucleobases found in DNA and RNA. The presence of ammonia and ...
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Do Extreme Microbes Live Outside The ISS? Yesterday's Spacewalk Will Help Find Out
NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore performed their ninth and fifth spacewalks respectively, with Williams ...
Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
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Transcriptomics analysis reveals potential mechanisms underlying mitochondrial dysfunction and T cell exhaustion in astronauts’ blood cells in space
The authors would like to thank Drs. Prachi Sao and Dan Wang of MD Anderson Cancer Center, Dr. Brandon Macias of NASA Johnson Space Center and Dr. Nancy L. Weigel of Baylor College of Medicine for ...
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NASA astronauts Williams and Hague complete first spacewalk in over a year
After a gap of more than a year, NASA successfully resumed spacewalks outside the International Space Station on Thursday. NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Suni Williams, dressed in pressurized NASA ...
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Stranded NASA Astronaut Goes on First Space Walk Since Arriving at Space Station 7 Months Ago
Suni Williams went for the space walk on Thursday, Jan. 16 to help NASA’s Nick Hague with some outside repair work, according to the Associated Press. “I’m coming out,” Williams ...
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Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin has entered the orbital space race. What it means for SpaceX and the space industry.
The first test flight of Blue Origin’s huge New Glenn rocket could have major implications for long-term economics of the space industry, say experts. Back To Top ...
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NASA's stuck astronaut steps out for a spacewalk after seven months in orbit
One of the two NASA astronauts stuck in space got a much-welcome change of scenery when she stepped out for her first spacewalk after seven months in orbit. Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have ...
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Stranded NASA astronaut gets change of pace with spacewalk, after 7 months in orbit
One of NASA's two stuck astronauts got a much welcomed change of scenery Thursday, stepping out on her first spacewalk since arriving at the International Space Station more than seven months ago.
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Blue Origin successfully launches New Glenn rocket into space
The company already has contracts with NASA, the Space Force, Amazon’s Project Kuiper, and others. It also hopes to one day launch astronauts to the moon as part of NASA’s Artemis project.
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Here’s what NASA would like to see SpaceX accomplish with Starship this year
Ars recently spoke with Lisa Watson-Morgan, the NASA engineer overseeing the ... shipped some of their docking systems to the Johnson Space Center for testing with the Orion Lockheed Martin ...
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NASA image shows how close ruinous fire came to major NASA center
Extreme wildfire is a driverless car. And it veered close to a major NASA center. After erupting in wooded hills outside of Los Angeles' community of Altadena, the Eaton Fire — one of the ...