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NASA’s Next-Gen Mars Helicopter Rotors Broke the Sound Barrier in Testing
Mars is where helicopter design gets weird fast. NASA says testing for its next Mars helicopter has pushed rotor tips to Mach 1.08 in a simulated Martian atmosphere, well beyond the limits...
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Scientists Say They’ve Identified 10,000 Hidden Exoplanet Candidates in a NASA Data Analysis
More than 10,000 possible planets have turned up in a single sweep of NASA data, after researchers used machine learning to search for signals that had not been flagged before.
In the new...
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NASA is Testing Supersonic Mars Helicopter Rotor Blades to Boost Future Red Planet Flight
Mars is already hard on aircraft, and NASA just pushed that problem a little further.
Rotor blades for the agency’s next-generation Mars helicopters broke the sound barrier during March tests at NASA’s Jet...
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NASA’s Simulated Mars Mission Reaches 200 Days in Habitat As Crew Advances Deep Space Living Research
Halfway in, and cut off from mission control, NASA’s latest Mars simulation crew is pushing through a two-week communications blackout inside its Houston habitat.
The four CHAPEA mission 2 crew members marked 200...
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These Students are Helping NASA Improve Drone Safety in U.S. Airspace
A group of Cornell University students is getting attention from industry and the federal government for research aimed at a national air transportation management system that could let thousands of drones operate...
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AI Just Found 100+ Hidden Planets in NASA Data, Revealing Rare and Extreme New Worlds
Space is throwing up a lot of maybes. A new AI system from the University of Warwick is helping astronomers sort out which ones are actually planets.
Researchers said they confirmed more than...