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Archive for May, 2023

‘Mars Horizon 2’ lets players search for Red Planet life with real science

May 13th, 2023 by

CalTech professor Konstantin Batygin, best known for his search for Planet 9, will pivot his expertise to Mars in support of a PC game coming in 2024.

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NASA gives up on tiny Lunar Flashlight probe’s troubled moon ice mission

May 13th, 2023 by

NASA has given up on the planned moon mission of its tiny Lunar Flashlight cubesat, which aimed to hunt for water ice in shadowy lunar craters.

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This snake robot could hunt alien life on icy moons like Enceladus

May 13th, 2023 by

Finding alien life just took a twist. A snake-shaped robot from NASA aims to climb the crumpled terrain of icy moons like Enceladus to search out microbes.

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Private moon lander’s launch with SpaceX delayed to this fall

May 13th, 2023 by

Intuitive Machines plans to touch down at the south pole of the moon, but there will be a wait as it continues to ready its lander for the ambitious mission.

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Europe’s JUICE Jupiter probe fixes antenna glitch in deep space (video)

May 13th, 2023 by

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, or JUICE, deployed its Radar for Icy Moons Exploration antenna today (May 12) after more than three weeks of troubleshooting efforts.

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‘Everspace 2’ trailer promises epic interstellar dogfights and deep space exploration

May 13th, 2023 by

Rockfish Games releases a thrilling new trailer for its 3D space shooter sequel, “Everspace 2.”

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James Webb Space Telescope studies mysterious exoplanet with a possible watery past

May 13th, 2023 by

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken a closer look at a mysterious “mini-Neptune” that is like nothing found in the solar system and may have had a watery past.

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UAE’s ambitious asteroid mission will tour 7 space rocks

May 13th, 2023 by

The United Arab Emirates is targeting seven different space rocks with its ambitious mission to the main asteroid belt.

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