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European Space Agency aims for own version of SpaceX

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The European ...

Astronomers Just Calculated The Spin Speed of a Supermassive Black Hole : ScienceAlert

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

A feast devoured by a supermassive black hole a billion light-years from Earth has revealed how fast that black hole spins on ...

Space debris could be dealt with more cheaply than previously thought, new NASA report suggests

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

A new report by NASA outlines the most promising approaches to keeping the space around Earth safe and usable for future generations ...

Boeing Starliner’s 1st astronaut launch delayed again, this time with no new flight date

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The first astronaut mission aboard Boeing’s Starliner is indefinitely grounded. Starliner will not lift off on Saturday (May 25) as planned, which ...

The tunable coupling of two distant superconducting spin qubits

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

This article has been reviewed according to Science X’s editorial process and policies. Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content’s ...

NASA Discovers Mini-Neptune in Binary Star System

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has made a remarkable discovery: a rare mini-Neptune exoplanet located within a double star system. This ...

May’s Auroras May Have Been Strongest For 500 Years, Says NASA

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

10 May 2024, Brandenburg, Falkenhagen: Light green and slightly reddish auroras glow in the night … [+] sky in the district of ...

Neutrons open window to explore space glass

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

This article has been reviewed according to Science X’s editorial process and policies. Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content’s ...

NASA Wants To Use The Sun As A Giant Telescope To View The Surface Of Alien Planets

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

In 1936, Albert Einstein published what he described as a “little calculation”, showing how the Sun could one day be used as ...

Satellites Reveal “Vigorous Melting” Beneath Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

A team led by glaciologists at UC Irvine used satellite radar data to reconstruct the impact of warm ocean water surging in ...