China could send astronauts to its space station for more than a year at a time once it goes operational in 2022, a senior project designer told state media. The country’s second space lab, the Tiangong-2 — or Heavenly Palace-2 — blasted off Thursday night from the Gobi desert and is expected to operate for […]
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NASA finds a planet that appears to be similar to Earth circling the star closest to the sun, potentially a major step in the quest to find out if life exists elsewhere in the universe, research published on Wednesday showed. The relative proximity of the planet, known as Proxima b, gives scientists a better chance to […]
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NASA scientists are putting the finishing touches on a spacecraft designed to rendezvous with Asteroid Bennu in 2018 to find clues about the origins of life. “We are days away from encapsulating into our rocket faring and lifting this spacecraft on to the Atlas V vehicle and beginning the journey to Bennu and back,” Dante […]
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