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The International Space Station

By: Basheir Khalid, Journalist
The International Space Station (ISS) is a remarkable achievement in space exploration. It is a large spacecraft that orbits the Earth and provides a unique environment for scientific research. The ISS is the result of collaboration between multiple countries, including the United States, Russia, Japan, Europe, and Canada.
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Cleaning Up Outer Space

Cleaning Up Outer Space

By: Liam Daquioag, Journalist
Humanity has a big problem with littering. Learn more on how space is turning into a junkyard, and how we can fix it.
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Colonizing Venus's Atmosphere

Colonizing Venus’s Atmosphere

By: Mercer Tomasino, Journalist
While many are looking to colonize Mars, the possibility of building a civilization on our other neighboring planet has arisen.
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Source: nasa.gov

Optical/Laser Communications Help NASA Transmit Data

By: Kawa Gyatso, Journalist
For the longest time, NASA and other space corporations needed a way to send and receive more data faster and better. The LCRD (Laser Communication Radio Device) replicates technological advances and is far more efficient than any data system ever before.
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The Europa Clipper

The Europa Clipper

By: Kawa Gyatso, Journalist
The Europa Clipper is a massive spacecraft made by NASA for a mission to Jupiter's moon, Europa. It will travel a super long distance of 1.8 billion miles from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to Europa. The
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a very large object in the middle of the night sky

The New Next-Gen Asteroid Hunter

By: Kawa Gyatso, Journalist
The NEO Surveyor is set to launch into space somewhere in the year 2027. This futuristic infrared space telescope is designed to detect the most elusive asteroids and comets that could threaten our planet.
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a close up of a car engine on a tripod

How An Engine Works!

By: Levani Goshua, Journalist
How Does An Engine Work? The inside of the engine consists of cylinders, pistons, fuel injectors, and spark plugs. These components combined burn fuel and exhaust gas out of the cylinders. By repeating this process the engine creates energy that moves the car.
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Why Hydrogen Cars Will Be the Normal in 2028

Why Hydrogen Cars Will Be the Normal in 2028

By: Oliver Novack, Journalist
By 2030 there are predicted to be $1.5 billion dollars in Hydrogen charging stations in the US. Hydrogen cars only take about 5 minutes to fully charge from an empty tank.
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full moon in dark night sky

Water Taken From Lunar Soil: China’s Method Can Produce H2O on the Moon at a Massive scale

By: Rafan Haque, Journalist
Chinese scientists have made an exciting breakthrough that could change the future of space exploration. They have discovered a way to take water from the Moon's soil, which might be a game changer for long term space missions on the moon and beyond.
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Hubble Space Telescope in Earth orbit

Private Mission to the Hubble Space Telescope Brings Concerns

By: Rory Peterson, Journalist
The Hubble Space Telescope, which has been in Earth Orbit for over 3 decades now, is expected to deorbit in 2034, bringing a close to a major asset that has helped NASA and the world at-large understand the universe. In 2022, billionaire and major funder of the Polaris Program, Jared Isaacman, announced that he would fly to Hubble and perform maintenance on the Telescope, and it would be completely funded privately.
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Formation of the universe without (above) and with (below) primordial black holes (CC-BY-SA 4.0)

Primordial Black holes

By: Brandon Tao, Journalist
Primordial Black holes are the smallest black holes to ever exist in the universe, they were smaller than a proton, & just as mysterious as dark matter. While unknown if they exist, their existence could answer many questions about how our universe evolved & came to be.
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Ancient lake on Mars

Ancient lake on Mars

By: Patrick Verasin, Journalist
Nasa's Perseverance rover has found a ancient lake on Mars proving that mars used to have a large body of water. Mars used to be a habitable place like earth.
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