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Lego rolls out details about Apollo lunar rover model coming in August

Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:00am
Lego is gearing up to deliver a detailed model of the original "rock and rolling ride," the electric buggy driven by NASA's last three Apollo crews to explore the moon.
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New algorithm slashes time to run most sophisticated climate models by 10-fold

Mon, 05/13/2024 - 9:00am
Climate models can be a million lines of code long and can take months to run on supercomputers. A new algorithm has dramatically shortened that time.
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Stunning image shows atoms transforming into quantum waves — just as Schrödinger predicted

Mon, 05/13/2024 - 8:00am
A new imaging technique, which captured frozen lithium atoms transforming into quantum waves, could be used to probe some of the most poorly understood aspects of the quantum world.
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The surface of this volcanic exoplanet is hotter than some stars

Mon, 05/13/2024 - 8:00am
Described as being like "Io on steroids," a newly discovered exoplanet is the victim of a tug of war between its neighboring planets and its star.
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How a giant sunspot unleashed solar storms that spawned global auroras that just dazzled us all

Mon, 05/13/2024 - 6:00am
Intense solar activity generated the most extreme geomagnetic storm since 2003 on Friday (May 10), and the action could continue into this week. Here's how it happened.
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SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites from Florida (video)

Sun, 05/12/2024 - 2:00pm
SpaceX launched 23 of its Starlink satellites from Florida on Sunday (May 12), adding to its huge and ever-growing broadband megaconstellation.
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Scientists could make blazing-fast 6G using curving light rays

Sun, 05/12/2024 - 10:00am
Researchers have discovered a way to curve data-carrying terahertz signals around obstacles, paving the way for ultrafast 6G.
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'Extreme' solar storms cook up sweet Mother's Day auroras for Moms everywhere

Sun, 05/12/2024 - 6:00am
Want to save all the calories from Mother's Day brunch? You can still "sweeten" her holiday with an opportunity to see the northern lights again tonight!
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The stormy sun erupts with its biggest solar flare yet from a massive sunspot — and it's still crackling (video)

Sat, 05/11/2024 - 3:11pm
Just when we think we’ve seen the most powerful of flares from a colossal sunspot, the sun unleashed kicked off the strongest eruption of the weekend yet and is still crackling with solar storms.
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Houston, we have an encore: ISS virtual reality experience 'The Infinite' returns

Sat, 05/11/2024 - 9:00am
What do you do for an encore after you have virtually transported thousands of Houstonians to the International Space Station? If you are Felix & Paul, you invite them back, to fly to the moon.
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Total solar eclipse 2027: A complete guide to the 'eclipse of the century'

Sat, 05/11/2024 - 9:00am
Discover the 'eclipse of the century' with this comprehensive total solar eclipse 2027 guide. Find out where to see it, the timings of totality and possible weather conditions for key locations.
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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 110 —Voyager 1's Brush with Silence

Sat, 05/11/2024 - 8:18am
On Episode 110 of This Week In Space, Rod and Tariq talk with Linda Spilker, Voyager project scientist, about the recent rescue of Voyager 1 from beyond the solar system.
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DARPA's autonomous 'Manta Ray' drone can glide through ocean depths undetected

Sat, 05/11/2024 - 8:00am
Northrop Grumman Corporation has built its Manta Ray uncrewed underwater vehicle, which will operate long-duration missions and carry payloads into the ocean depths in partnership with DARPA.
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'World's purest silicon' could lead to 1st million-qubit quantum computing chips

Sat, 05/11/2024 - 8:00am
Scientists engineer the 'purest ever silicon' to build reliable qubits that can be manufactured to the size of a pinhead on a chip and power million-qubit quantum computers in the future.
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Jaw-dropping northern lights from massive solar flares amaze skywatchers around the world. 'We have a very rare event on our hands.' (photos)

Sat, 05/11/2024 - 7:48am
An aurora show like no other is playing out in the night sky this weekend, spawned by intense solar storms that are painting the sky spectacular hues of pinks, purples and greens.
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NASA's Chandra spacecraft spots supermassive black hole erupting in the Milky Way's heart

Sat, 05/11/2024 - 6:00am
NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope has spotted the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy erupting, proving even quiet black holes like Sagittarius A* need to vent sometimes.
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Watch monster flare-spewing sunspot grow to be 15 times wider than Earth (video)

Fri, 05/10/2024 - 5:30pm
A beastly sunspot that's 15 times the diameter of Earth remains highly active — and you might be able to spot it with your eclipse glasses!
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Cracking! Some binary black holes may roll around each other in egg-shaped orbits

Fri, 05/10/2024 - 5:00pm
Some black hole pairs roll around each other in wobbly, egg-shaped orbits that could hold clues about their origins, gravitational wave measurements suggest.
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NASA's Roman Space Telescope will hunt for the universe's 1st stars — or their shredded corpses, anyway

Fri, 05/10/2024 - 4:00pm
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Telescope will hunt for the universe's first stars — or rather, what's left of them after they've been ripped apart by black holes.
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Our neighboring galaxy's supermassive black hole would probably be a polite dinner guest

Fri, 05/10/2024 - 3:58pm
Astronomers find multiple streams of dust spiraling into the heart of the nearby Andromeda galaxy, where a supermassive black hole lurks.
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