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NASA wants a cheaper Mars Sample Return—Boeing proposes most expensive rocket
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Enlarge / The Space Launch System rocket lifts off on the Artemis I mission. NASA is looking for ways to get rock ...
The stormy sun erupts with its biggest solar flare yet from a massive sunspot — and it’s still crackling (video)
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Just when we thought we’d seen the most powerful flares from a colossal sunspot, the sun unleashed its strongest eruption of the ...
Is dark matter’s main rival theory dead?
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Enlarge / Galaxy rotation has long perplexed scientists. One of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics today is that the forces in galaxies ...
Institutional Memory, On Paper | Hackaday
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Our own Dan Maloney has been on a Voyager kick for the past couple of years. Voyager, the space probe. As a ...
James May says stop panicking about pub closures as only the bad ones don’t survive
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TV presenter and publican James May believes Britain is “oversubscribed” with watering holes and the sector’s struggles are simply “a cull” that ...
Largest animal lived 100 million years ago on Earth
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Earth’s largest animal is 121 feet long Patagotitan mayorum. — Freepik/File The largest animal to ever walk on planet Earth was known ...
NASA’s Chandra spacecraft spots supermassive black hole erupting in the Milky Way’s heart
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Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray space telescope, scientists have discovered a new cosmic “exhaust vent” funneling hot gas away from Sagittarius A* (Sgr ...
What would happen if a sewing needle hits Earth at speed of light?
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Here are three theoretical scenarios that might occur if a needle hit Earth at speed of light Would Earth explode ...
How the Moon got a makeover
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Our Moon may appear to shine peacefully in the night sky, but billions of years ago, it was given a facial by ...
Our neighboring galaxy’s supermassive black hole would probably be a polite dinner guest
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How do you satiate the hunger of a supermassive black hole? With light-years-long rivers of cosmic dust, astronomers say. Scientists have found ...
