• A NASA watchdog is asking the agency to take a critical look at its airplane-mounted telescope that costs around $83 million a year to run. SOFIA is a modified Boeing 747SP with a telescope mounted to the back of it which flies into the stratosphere.
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• As the presidential election approaches, so does an asteroid. But don’t worry, you will still be able to go out and vote.
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• It’s been more than a month since an asteroid-hunting telescope in Puerto Rico has gone dark. The Arecibo Observatory’s dish is broken after a piece of scaffolding fell, damaging the surface. So what will it take to fix it?
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• Scientists have found a gas associated with living organisms in a region of Venus’ atmosphere. They can’t figure out how it got there if it didn’t come from life.
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• It’s been almost a month since a snapped cable damaged the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Work continues to diagnose the cause and bring the dish back online.
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• Last week, scientists, engineers and visionaries met at the annual Humans to Mars summit, outlining current challenges and technological breakthroughs in developing a plan for how to live on the red planet.
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• A radio telescope tasked with searching for near-Earth asteroids has gone quiet after suffering damage to its 350 meter dish.
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