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A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft lifts off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. Europa Clipper is the first mission designed to conduct a detailed study of Jupiter’s moon Europa to determine if it currently has habitable conditions. The spacecraft will travel 1.8 billion miles […]
The first chunk of what will be the largest 3D map of the universe ever made has been revealed, putting 14 million galaxies – not to mention tens of millions of stars in our own Milky Way – on show in incredible detail. The Euclid mission, launched in 2023 and run by the European Space […]
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China has unveiled an ambitious road map to surpass the United States and become the world leader in space science by 2050. The national development programme for space science was released on Tuesday by the China National Space Administration, China Manned Space Agency and Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is the first such plan unveiled […]
At the end of 2022, 65 percent of the Western United States was in severe drought, the result of a two decades long mega drought in the Colorado River Basin that had captured headlines around the world. However, it was flooding, not drought, that was making headlines when we began our research for this story […]
A Nasa spacecraft has set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth. Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust where an ocean is thought to be sloshing fairly close to the surface. It won’t search for life, but rather determine whether conditions there […]
(Cap Canaveral) La sonde Europa Clipper de la NASA a décollé lundi des États-Unis en direction d’une lune de Jupiter, afin de découvrir si elle réunit les ingrédients qui lui permettraient d’abriter de la vie dans un océan d’eau liquide. Publié à 10h55 Mis à jour à 12h32 Chandan KHANNA avec Lucie AUBOURG à Washington […]
Nadia Zenteno, una mujer de 28 años originaria de Ciudad Juárez, desarrolló un material innovador que será enviado a la Estación Espacial Internacional (EEI) para su evaluación en un entorno de microgravedad. Este material, una aleación de compuestos que se adapta a las rigurosas condiciones del espacio exterior, tiene aplicaciones potenciales en la construcción de […]
Illustration of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft NASA/JPL-Caltech The largest spacecraft ever created by NASA for an interplanetary mission will launch today to determine whether Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, has an environment that could support life. The Europa Clipper mission is expected to launch at 12:06 pm local time aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket […]
Felipe Valdez is someone who took advantage of every possible opportunity at NASA, working his way from undergraduate intern to his current job as a flight controls engineer. Born in the United States but raised in Mexico, Valdez faced significant challenges growing up. “My mom worked long hours, my dad battled addiction, and eventually, school […]