Rao is a freelance science journalist based in New York and is a contributor to Live Science’s sister site Space.com, as well as Popular Science, EEE Spectrum and Gizmodo. Rao has a bachelor’s degree in Physics and English from Vanderbilt University, and a master’s degree in Science, Health and Environmental Reporting from New York University.
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The moon is shrinking, causing landslides and moonquakes exactly where NASA wants to build its 1st lunar colonyThe moon has been slowly shrinking for millions of years. Now, as Artemis 3 nears its 2026 launch date, geologists worry about whether moonquakes and lunar landslides will impact landing.
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Signs of life shooting from Saturn's moon could be collected with spacecraft, scientists sayPossible amino acids spewing from Enceladus' subsurface ocean can survive impact with a spacecraft, lab experiments show.
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NASA and India's debut climate satellite to launch in 2024. Here's what it'll do.The NISAR satellite, a collaboration between NASA and India's space agency ISRO, will help scientists monitor how climate change is affecting Earth's varied landscapes.
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Earth receives laser-beam message from 10 million miles away in new NASA experimentEarth successfully received a message beamed from NASA's Psyche spacecraft, located some 10 million miles away.
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Curvature of space-time measured using 'atomic fountain'A group of physicists has measured gravity using the effects of time dilation — the slowing of time imparted by increased velocity or gravitational force — on atoms.
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Astronomers spot 3,000 light-year 'light echo' of dying supermassive black holeThe "active galactic nucleus" phase of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy Arp 187 has apparently just ended.
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Already-weird galaxy found to have oddly little dark matterAstronomers may not know what dark matter is, but they do know that galaxies are supposed to contain a lot of the shadowy, invisible substance.
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