A laser message that was just received by Earth from a record-breaking 140 million miles distant in space may have significant ramifications for space travel in the future. The sender of this letter, NASA’s Psyche mission, which is presently situated around 1.5 times the distance between Earth and the Sun, wasn’t extraterrestrial, though. “This represents […]
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As the nation moves closer to its goal of landing a person on the moon by 2030, China’s Chang’e 6 robotic mission is scheduled to launch this week with the goal of returning samples from the moon’s far side for the first time. The Chang’e 6 lunar probe and the Long March-5 Y8 carrier rocket […]
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Methane has been consistently found on Mars since 2012 by NASA’s Curiosity rover, particularly in the vicinity of its landing site within the 96-mile-wide (154-kilometer) Gale Crater. However, the methane on Mars is acting strangely. It only shows up at night, varies with the seasons, and suddenly peaks at 40 times the normal amount. The […]
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SpaceX hopes to duplicate the last two back-to-back days of launches, which occurred just over a week ago. SpaceX added two more Florida rocket launches to the year’s rapidly increasing total when it launched Starlink satellites into orbit on the evenings of Wednesday and Thursday of last week. SpaceX intends to launch two rockets in […]
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In a news release from NASA, the agency said that on Tuesday, April 22, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and pilot Suni Williams, who would be flying on Boeing Starliner, entered the routine pre-flight quarantine. As stated by NASA officials, quarantine will “ensure the health and safety of […]
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A military spacecraft of unknown origin has taken launched using one of Elon Musk’s rockets. Using one of its Falcon Heavy rockets, the billionaire’s rocket business SpaceX launched the US Space Force’s top-secret X-37B spacecraft into orbit on Thursday. The mysterious spacecraft has been launched by Elon Musk’s rocket business twice before, with multiple delays […]
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For an extended period, certain astronomers have opined that peculiar actions occurring at the periphery of our solar system could be mostly attributed to an additional, unexplored planet. This contributes to the explanation of the orbits of objects located at the furthest points of our solar system, over 250 times farther from the Sun than […]
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The Winchcombe meteorite was impacted by water and frequently broke apart and reassembled during its space voyage, as shown by a thorough new nano-analysis, before landing in an English sheep farm in 2021. On the study, researchers from numerous universities in the US, Australia, Europe, and the UK worked together. All of them combined to […]
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Indigenous peoples residing on the Great Plains of Montana and southern Alberta may trace their beginnings to ice period antecedents according to the Blackfoot Confederacy’s old ancestry, which dates back 18,000 years, according to a recent DNA study. A group of scientists lead by two Blackfoot Confederacy members looked into the genetic heritage of their […]
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The interaction between meandering ocean currents and the ocean floor causes upwelling velocity, which carries warm water to shallower depths, according to a recent study published in Nature Communications. The Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica is seeing significant ice shelf melting due to this mechanism. The quick destabilization of these ice shelves is causing the […]
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