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The readiness of the Orion crew capsule, where the four Artemis II astronauts will live during their voyage around the Moon, ...

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The SpaceX astronaut Jared Isaacman says frequent space travel is "around the corner." How humans will survive off-world is ...

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Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this ...

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The cause of the magnetic shield losing strength 'exceptionally fast ... (massive clouds of energetic and magnetized solar ...

A recent study reveals that current radiation levels in Chernobyl’s ... helped them withstand radiation by providing protective shielding against radiation damage. However, it remains unclear ...

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