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NASA funds experimental radiation shield and Mars climbing robot

3 March 2022

Several futuristic projects have just been awarded money through NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts programme – here are New Scientist's top five choices

NASA mission takes first close-up images of Ganymede in two decades

7 June 2021

NASA took pictures of Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede with its Galileo and Voyager missions, and now it has returned for the first time in over two decades with the Juno mission

Crew of mock lunar 'biosphere' grew food and made oxygen for 200 days

2 March 2021

The inhabitants of China’s Lunar Palace biosphere lived on recycled oxygen and water, and grew their own food for a record-setting 200 days without outside intervention

Physicists find best way for insects to avoid collisions when jumping

21 January 2021

Equations show that jumping at 60 degrees relative to the horizontal helps insects avoid hitting obstacles – a finding that might help in the design of space exploration rovers

Asteroid-munching microbes could mine materials from space rocks

10 November 2020

Some microbes break down rocks and leach certain elements out of them for nutrients, and experiments in space show they could be used for mining beyond Earth

Space rock Arrokoth may have been flattened by the heat of the sun

5 October 2020

The surface of Arrokoth, an oddly flat body on the edge of the solar system, may have been boiled away by heat from the sun

NASA missions may go to Venus or our solar system’s strangest moons

13 February 2020

NASA has selected four potential future missions – to Jupiter’s fiery moon Io, Neptune’s icy moon Triton, and two that would explore the atmosphere and map the surface of Venus