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May 6, 2021 at 5:47 pm

Heads up! A used Chinese rocket is tumbling back to Earth this weekend

No, you are almost certainly not going to be hit by a 10-story, 23-ton piece of a rocket hurtling back to Earth. That said, the...

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April 25, 2021 at 1:02 pm

‘Nothing Short of Amazing’: NASA Mars Helicopter Makes Longest Flight Yet

NASA’s Mars helicopter went up again, going faster and traveling a total distance that was about the length of an American football field on its...

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April 22, 2021 at 11:08 am

NASA’s Mars helicopter’s 2nd flight is a success

NASA’s engineers already made history Monday with the 39.1-second flight of Ingenuity, a small helicopter, in the thin atmosphere on Mars. On Thursday, they added...

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April 19, 2021 at 2:15 pm

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Completes First Flight on Another Planet VIEW

A small robotic helicopter named Ingenuity made space exploration history Monday when it lifted off the surface of Mars and hovered in the wispy air...

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April 18, 2021 at 9:24 pm

NASA Mars Helicopter’s First Flight: When to Watch

Early Monday, a robotic helicopter that NASA sent to Mars will try to rise a few feet in the air, hover and come back down....

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In an undated photo from Blue Origin, an artist’s concept of Blue Origin’s Blue Moon spacecraft and astronauts on the moon. NASA announced on April 16 that it had awarded a contract to SpaceX for $2.9 billion to use the company’s Starship to take astronauts from lunar orbit to the surface of the moon. (Blue Origin via The New York Times) — NO SALES; FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY SPACEX LUNAR LANDER BY KENNETH CHANG FOR APRIL 16, 2021. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED. — XNYT175 XNYT175

April 16, 2021 at 3:53 pm

SpaceX wins NASA $2.9 billion contract to build moon lander, beating Blue Origin

The contract represents something of a triumph for Musk in the battle of space billionaires. One of the competitors for the NASA lunar contract was...

March 29, 2021 at 1:55 pm

Note to Future Space Travelers: Prepare for a Shrinking Heart

In space, your heart gets smaller. In a study published on Monday in the journal Circulation, scientists reported that the largest chamber of the heart...

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In an undated image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech, an animation depicting the test flight of NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars. The experimental vehicle named Ingenuity traveled to the red planet with the Perseverance rover, which is also preparing for its main science mission. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via The New York Times) — FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. —

March 23, 2021 at 10:14 pm

Get ready for the first flight of NASA’s Mars helicopter

Packed under the belly of Perseverance, a car-size robotic vehicle that landed on Mars last month, is Ingenuity, a 4-pound mini-helicopter intended to demonstrate that...

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March 17, 2021 at 7:19 am

2 win Abel Prize for work that bridged math and computer science

Mathematicians Avi Wigderson and László Lovász will share the Abel Prize. Their work involves proving theorems and developing methods in pure mathematics. The research has...

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This image from video made available by NASA shows the parachute deployed during the descent of the Mars Perseverance rover as it approaches the surface of the planet on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Systems engineer Ian Clark used a binary code to spell out â€œDare Mighty Thingsâ€ in the orange and white strips of the 70-foot (21-meter) parachute. He also included the GPS coordinates for the mission’s headquarters at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP) NY875 NY875

February 24, 2021 at 4:25 pm

NASA sent a secret message to Mars. Meet the civilians who decoded it. VIEW

A science-minded team of father and son collaborated to decode a NASA engineer's message on the Perseverence parachute that helped guide the rover to Mars....

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