NASA joins forces with DARPA on effort to demonstrate nuclear rocket for Mars trips

The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency has taken on NASA as a partner for a project aimed at demonstrating a nuclear-powered rocket that could someday send astronauts to Mars.

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This Is Fine: NASA Pauses Attempts to Fix Lucy's Pesky Solar Array

NASA is taking a break from attempts to unfurl a finicky solar array on the Lucy spacecraft, claiming that the probe is too cold and that efforts at deploying the array could be more fruitful when

ChatGPT passes MBA exam given by a Wharton professor

Research conducted by a professor at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School found that the AI-driven chatbot GPT-3 was able to pass the final exam for the school's MBA program.

Common Type of Asteroid Could Be Very Hard to Destroy, Study Finds

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30-year-old mission to study the magnetosphere comes to a close

A 30-year-old NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission has come to an end with the closing of operations on the Geotail satellite. Launched in July 1992, Geotail was designed to study

Dozens of US schools, universities move to ban TikTok

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