Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture isn’t just working on rockets and space stations: The Kent, Wash.-based company is also developing a technology that could someday transform the moon’s soil into ...

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Jeff Bezos' private space firm Blue Origin unveiled its new 'Blue Alchemist' technology that would ensure an abundance of solar power for long-term missions on the Moon. They did this by directly ...

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A total eclipse is a rare event; often, hundreds of years pass between moon shadow passes in any one location. That a total solar eclipse will cross the United States for the second time in seven ...

One of the biggest challenges for humanity as we move further out into the solar system will be learning to “live off the land” rather than lugging materials with us. Blue Origin now says it’s made ...

On April 8, people from all over the country flocked to a narrow belt of land, running from Texas to Maine, to catch a glimpse of the total solar eclipse. Emerging from the Mexican border around ...

A Chinese-German team of scientists have identified the magnetic structures in the solar corona where the fast solar wind originates. Using images and Doppler maps from the Solar Ultraviolet ...

Early historical accounts across various ancient civilizations document solar eclipses as noteworthy, often fear-inducing phenomena, with records spanning from ancient Chinese texts (e.g., Shujing) to ...

In a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment, researchers at the University of Rochester were able to use magnetism to determine, for the first time, when ...

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