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Nuclear reactors on rockets may fuel future crewed trips to Mars

Space

Nuclear reactors on rockets may fuel future crewed trips to Mars

NASA’s push to develop a rocket engine powered by a nuclear reactor could create a faster, lighter spaceship and cut the trip to Mars down to four months

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A white dust devil against the red Martian surface

Space

Mars’s surface hosts millions of towering dust devils every day

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Giant loner asteroids suggest baby planets formed quickly

Space

Giant loner asteroids suggest baby planets formed quickly

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Watering space cucumbers

Life

Space cucumbers may help plants grow better water-seeking roots

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Enormous exoplanet has an atmosphere hot enough to boil iron

Space

Enormous exoplanet has an atmosphere hot enough to boil iron

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Fast radio bursts may be dark matter ‘stars’ hitting black holes

Space

Fast radio bursts may be dark matter ‘stars’ hitting black holes

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Waves in water

Earth

Quantum gravity detector will use atom clouds to survey for oil

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Ada Lovelace

Technology

Time to bust the myth that Ada Lovelace was an overhyped aristo

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First exomoon might have been spotted 4000 light years away

Space

First exomoon might have been spotted 4000 light years away

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Smallest satellite ever paves way for planned interstellar fleet

Space

Smallest satellite ever paves way for planned interstellar fleet

Breakthrough Starshot, the $100 million project to send tiny spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, successfully operated a mini-satellite in orbit for the first time

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Physics

Bigger bang theory: teach atoms new tricks to beef up explosives

Features

Space

Elon Musk seems to have ditched Red Dragon lander plan for Mars

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Space

We could build a galactic internet but it may take 300,000 years

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Space

Robotic landers could start mining the moon as early as 2020

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