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NASA Mars helicopter heard humming through planet’s thin air

May 8, 2021 12:06:01 pm

The $85 million tech demo was supposed to end a few days ago, but NASA extended the mission by at least a month to get more flying time.

SpaceX launches, lands Starship in 1st successful flight

May 6, 2021 8:36:56 am

The previous four tests flights ended in fiery explosions before, during or soon after touchdown at the southeastern tip of Texas, near Brownsville.

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Starlink satellite internet service gets 500,000 preorders: Elon Musk

May 5, 2021 11:30:53 am

SpaceX has received more than 500,000 preorders for its Starlink satellite internet service and anticipates no technical problems meeting the demand, founder Elon Musk said

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SpaceX capsule departs station with 4 astronauts, heads home

May 2, 2021 8:36:07 am

It would be the first US splashdown in darkness since Apollo 8′s crew returned from the moon in 1968.

Mars helicopter gets extra month of flying as rover’s scout

May 1, 2021 11:16:49 am

On its fifth flight in a week or so, the chopper will move to a new airfield on Mars, allowing the rover to finally start focusing on its own rock-sampling mission.

uGMRT enables study of environment around rare transient object 215 million light years away

April 30, 2021 9:12:26 pm

Located 215 million light years away, the source, named AT 2018cow, was tracked for more than two years by scientists at the TIFR-National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) using their own upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT).

NASA-SpaceX Crew-2 mission launches 4 astronauts into International Space Station on a reused rocket

April 23, 2021 7:03:48 pm

NASA's SpaceX Crew-2 mission consists of four astronauts - NASA's Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet.

Least vaccinated US counties have something in common: Trump voters

April 22, 2021 12:59:24 pm

In counties where a majority of residents voted for Trump in the 2020 election, adult vaccination rates were lower, on average, than in counties where a majority of residents voted for Biden.

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NASA delays Ingenuity Mars helicopter flight to after April 14; helicopter test ends early

April 12, 2021 3:13:45 pm

NASA has decided to reschedule the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s first experimental flight to no earlier than April 14, based on the data from the Ingenuity Mars helicopter

Astronomers discover 12 rare quadruple quasars that can better tell rate of universe expansion

April 10, 2021 12:49:31 pm

The first quadruple quasar image was captured in 1985 and since then, only 50 such quasars have been identified. The latest finding has now increased the total confirmed Einstein's crosses by 25 per cent.

A tiny particle’s wobble could upend the known laws of Physics

April 8, 2021 9:27:30 am

The particle célèbre is the muon, which is akin to an electron but far heavier and is an integral element of the cosmos.

Bulgarian cave remains reveal surprises about earliest Homo sapiens in Europe

April 8, 2021 8:28:19 am

Homo sapiens first appeared in Africa approximately 300,000 years ago and later trekked to other parts of the world, sometimes encountering Neanderthals — our close cousins — already inhabiting parts of Eurasia.

That night 46 million grasshoppers went to Las Vegas

April 5, 2021 10:17:02 am

Elske Tielens, an insect ecologist at the University of Oklahoma, found that on July 26, 2019, the peak night of the invasion, some 46 million grasshoppers took wing and then clustered over the brightest parts of the city.

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Astronomers discover X-rays detected from Uranus, but unsure of its source

April 3, 2021 9:11:02 am

Astronomers do not know from the source of these X-rays light coming from Uranus but have come up with two possible explanations

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Asteroid Apophis is not a threat to Earth for at least 100 years, says NASA

March 29, 2021 9:17:30 am

Astronomers used the asteroid Apophis' flyby on March 5, 2021, as an opportunity to use powerful radar observations to estimate the celestial object's orbit around the Sun.

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A new image gives a closer look at M87 black hole and its magnetic field

March 25, 2021 11:34:04 am

Astronomers hope to understand how the reason why a black hole eats matter (a celestial object) that is in its orbit and also how it shoots out massive jet particles into outer space

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Mars long ago was wet. You may be surprised where the water went

March 29, 2021 9:18:34 am

Early in its history, Mars may have possessed liquid water on its surface approximately equivalent in volume to half of the Atlantic Ocean, enough to have covered the entire planet with water perhaps up to nearly a mile (1.5 km) deep.

Quad push: ISRO taking space ties with US, Japan & Australia to a higher orbit

March 16, 2021 5:49:13 pm

Known as the "Quadrilateral Security Dialogue", the Quad grouping held its first virtual summit last week.

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NASA’s Hubble spots a second atmosphere forming on Earth-like exoplanet

March 17, 2021 9:07:41 am

Astronomers were surprised by the new findings as the new atmosphere contains a toxic mix of hydrogen, methane and hydrogen cyanide. In addition, it also contains aerosol haze similar to Earth which is a result of photochemically produced hydrocarbons.