A group of businesses was given a contract by the European Space Agency to continue working on a Mars rover mission that was thrown off course by geopolitics two years prior. On April 9, ESA declared that it has given a team headed by Thales Alenia Space a contract valued at 522 million euros ($567 […]
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Most scientists concur that the Moon formed approximately 4.5 billion years ago, following Earth’s collision with a planetoid resembling Mars. For what happened next, there are a plethora of models and theories. According to the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory’s most recent analysis, the Moon had to completely transform into a stable satellite […]
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On Saturday night, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base. At 7:25 p.m., the rocket took off and was visible for hundreds of kilometers. Twenty-one Starlink satellites, including six with Direct to Cell capabilities, had to be sent into orbit as part of the operation. The Falcon started its ascent […]
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Some stars around the center supermassive black hole of the Milky Way appear surprisingly young for their age. But these celebrities have a far darker explanation for their youthful appearance than do people, who could seem refreshed after receiving new collagen injections. They consumed their neighbors. This is but one of the most unusual discoveries […]
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Homo humans left behind little clues about their whereabouts when they migrated out of Africa and returned 20,000 years later to Eurasia. And in the interim, where had they gone? According to a study, Homo sapiens left Africa during that enigmatic time and settled on the Persian plateau. According to fossil evidence, early Homo sapiens […]
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The first crewed launch of Boeing’s new Starliner capsule is now scheduled for May 6, five more days later than originally planned. The much awaited Crew Flight Test (CFT) of the Starliner mission was scheduled for May 1st by NASA and Boeing. But it isn’t the current strategy. NASA officials provided an update on Tuesday […]
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Trinity College Dublin researchers found that people’s rates at which they interpret visual information vary greatly using a blink-and-you-ll-miss-it experiment. Some individuals receive more visual information in a given amount of time than others because they are able to perceive quickly changing visual cues at frequencies that others are not able to. According to this […]
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One of the fundamental building blocks of life, amino acids, are probably not going to be lacking in any lifeforms that reside in Venus’s poisonous clouds. That’s what researchers claim is the outcome of a recent lab experiment, at least. Though Venus is Earth’s “twin,” it sizzles at hundreds of degrees and is shrouded in […]
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A FAHomo sapiens, as a species, left Africa some 70,000 years ago and started to colonize new areas of the globe. And then what? It turns out that our DNA have some hidden information. An area encompassing modern-day Iran has been identified as a major “hub” for humans who left Africa tens of thousands of […]
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According to a recent experiment, NASA’s next Europa Clipper spacecraft may be able to collect a single ice grain that was blasted from Jupiter’s ocean moon Europa, which might potentially provide evidence of extraterrestrial life. “It might be easier than we thought to find life, or traces of it, on icy moons with suitable instrumentation, […]
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