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In the relentless quest to make journeys to Mars shorter and safer, Russian scientists have recently turned heads with a bold claim: A plasma-based propulsion system could cut the Earth–Mars transit to just 30 to 60 days. This is a dramatic leap from a typical estimation of about 9 months cruise time to reach the Red Planet, possibly even up …

Leo_B/Shutterstock In the relentless quest to make journeys to Mars shorter and safer, Russian scientists have recently turned heads with a bold claim: A plasma-based propulsion system could cut the Earth–Mars transit to just 30 to 60 days. This is a dramatic leap from a typical estimation of about 9 months cruise …

Today brings a gentle reminder to slow down and listen to your inner voice. The energy may feel softer than usual, guiding you to observe instead of act quickly. You may notice that not every situation needs a response. Some matters resolve quietly with time. When you give space to your thoughts, they become clearer and more useful. This is …

When scientists first spotted long, narrow gullies carved into the sand dunes of Mars, some believed they could be signs of past life – or at least of flowing water. That hope has fizzled for now. But it turns out something else entirely may be responsible for shaping these alien features: exploding dry ice. That’s right – dry …

If life ever existed on Mars, traces of it might still be frozen beneath the planet’s icy surface. A new study from NASA and Penn State University suggests fragments of biomolecules from ancient microbes could survive in Martian ice for tens of millions of years — long enough for future missions to potentially find them, according to a statement from …

Blocks of carbon dioxide ice appear to carve mysterious gullies on Mars as they melt along dunes and blast away sand — a process that looks eerily like the burrowing of fictional sandworms in the movie “Dune.” Planetary scientists have long puzzled over strange, sinuous trenches etched into desert dunes on the Red Planet. The channels look freshly dug, complete …

They’re Ready to Go to Mars  The New York Times Source link

We’re entering a new era of space. One defined not by exploration alone, but by the infrastructure that makes a sustained presence possible.  For decades, our presence in space has been limited to short-term missions: land, explore and return. But now that’s changing. Artemis is preparing the moon as a steppingstone to Mars, shifting the United States’ national space strategy …

That’s two in a row for Starship. SpaceX’s Starship , the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, aced a suborbital test flight today (Oct. 13), following up on a similar success in late August. Today’s mission, which lifted off from SpaceX’s Starbase site in South Texas, was the 11th overall test flight for the Starship program. It was also …

In early October, astronomers spotted something ancient and mysterious gliding past Mars. It was not a spacecraft or satellite, but a visitor from beyond our Solar System – an interstellar comet. Comet 3I/ATLAS is only the third interstellar comet ever observed. These types of comets are true outsiders from deep space. They were born around a completely different star, long …