2026 is shaping up to be a pretty big year for NASA.
Following the successful Artemis II mission to prepare for future lunar landings, the agency is preparing to launch its latest observatory.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — named for
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Catching cancer's earliest moments: How mutated cells transform their local environment so a tumor can develop – Medical Xpress
- Catching cancer’s earliest moments: How mutated cells transform their local environment so a tumor can develop Medical Xpress
- Catching Cancer’s Earliest Moments: How Mutated Cells Transform Their Local Environment So a Tumor Can Develop
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Cosmic dust is constantly falling on Earth, reaching most houses
Researchers have found that a small detector orbiting Earth can directly detect ‘cosmic dust’ from space as it strikes the instrument above the planet.
That result makes the stream of cosmic material reaching Earth feel less abstract, because…
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From ‘Starfield’ to Artemis: designing moonbases in games and reality
NASA’s Artemis program is the space agency’s plan for returning humanity to our closest cosmic neighbor, the moon. This time, though, the idea isn’t just brief contact and exploratory surveys, but a sustained lunar presence, and the agency…
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MSL Curiosity Found New Organic Chemicals On Mars, Proof That The Planet Can Preserve Ancient Biosignatures
NASA’s MSL Curiosity rover has found some more pieces of the puzzle that is Mars’ ancient habitability. Evidence that the planet was once warm, wet, and habitable is growing, and now Curiosity has detected some new organic molecules. The…
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How it could benefit China in space race
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) plan to land humans back on the moon by 2028 could be pushed back by three years…
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Mars missions face new contamination risk from hardy fungus
Keeping Mars free from Earth life is one of the most important rules in space exploration. If microbes from our planet were to survive the journey, they could interfere with experiments or even mimic signs of alien life.
Now, scientists have found…
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NASA Eyes September for Roman Telescope Launch
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is photographed in the largest clean room at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The observatory is on track for delivery to the launch site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center…
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Neanderthal babies looked like modern toddlers at 6 months of age
Researchers have found that a six-month-old Neanderthal infant already had the body size of a modern toddler.
The discovery recasts early Neanderthal life around unusually fast growth, showing that infants reached larger bodies and heavier needs…
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"We Have One Shot To Be There": How ESA's Record-Breaking Ramses Mission Will Give Us A Close Look At Asteroid Apophis – IFLScience
- “We Have One Shot To Be There”: How ESA’s Record-Breaking Ramses Mission Will Give Us A Close Look At Asteroid Apophis IFLScience
- ‘God of chaos’ asteroid will be once-in-a-lifetime event visible to the naked eye — and closer than many…
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