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Archive for March 31st, 2021

This Deep Space Food Challenge wants your help to feed astronauts of the future

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NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) have paired up for a challenge to build food systems for Mars missions.

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Uranus is belching X-rays and is weirder than we ever thought

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The more scientists study it, the weirder Uranus gets.

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Huge volcanic eruption didn’t cause climate change and mass extinction 140 million years ago

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Mass extinctions are times in Earth’s past when large proportions of life suddenly and catastrophically died.

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Scientists detect world’s coldest cloud hovering over Pacific Ocean

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A severe thunderstorm cloud that formed over the Pacific Ocean in 2018 reached the coldest temperatures ever recorded.

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‘Fighting for Space’: Author Amy Shira Teitel talks the history of women in spaceflight

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In her new book, “Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight,” author and spaceflight historian Amy Shira Teitel delivers a dual biography that peels back decades of history to reveal the true stories of Jerrie Cobb and Jackie Cochran.

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We should study ‘dead’ alien worlds, and maybe (carefully) seed them with life

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Looking at the scientific information gleaned from lifeless worlds could help in the search for life, one astrobiologist says.

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The future of space tourism: op-ed

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The NewSpace industry has its sights set on space tourism, a growing market expected to be worth at least $3 billion by 2030.

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Gorgeous NASA photo shows a volcano eruption in Iceland at night

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Data from NASA’s Landsat satellite shows what a volcano eruption looks like from above the clouds.

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