The Mars Sample Return mission has a shaky future, and NASA is calling on private companies for backup
It’s not easy to collect rocks on a budget when the rocks are 140 million miles away.
April 25, 2024 • ~9 min
It’s not easy to collect rocks on a budget when the rocks are 140 million miles away.
There’s anxiety among space scientists following Nasa’s decision to rethink sample return mission from Mars.
Perhaps life is more common in the universe that we think.
The amount of space junk will increase as we continue to launch objects into space, but there are ways to curb damage on the ground.
Saturn’s moon Enceladus has geysers shooting tiny grains of ice into space. These grains could hold traces of life − but researchers need the right tools to tell.
Where specialized algorithms fail to classify star-borne pulses, human volunteers with just a little training can step in.
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