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- From Around the Web, Space
- February 20, 2019
Attempt to become fourth country to send spacecraft to the surface blasts off this week

Attempt to become fourth country to send spacecraft to the surface blasts off this week

Since the end of the Apollo-era, one of the main goals of NASA, Roscosmos and other space agencies has been the development of technologies that will enable a long-term human presence in space.

Say you need to prepare to shoot bullets into an asteroid and suck up the debris kicked up from the blast, then tuck it away for safekeeping. There’s no better way than to shoot bullets into a fake asteroid here on Earth and watch what happens in slow motion.

Scientists try to explain how a body of water could remain liquid in such a cold environment

The day after tomorrow, Earth will be buzzed by a fairly large asteroid hurtling through space at more than 30,000 mph.

A small satellite has captured a piece of space debris using a claw-tipped harpoon. The test represents an important technological achievement given our mounting space junk problem.

Researchers are working with Nasa to see if clowns help team cohesion on long space missions

The NASA rover’s surprisingly long mission moved Mars science past ‘follow the water’

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped the newest machine on Mars. You can even see the solar panels.

Imagine going to live on a planet where the sun never moves in the sky. No sunrise, no sunset.



