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Sierra Space wants to drop cargo from orbit to anywhere on Earth in 90 minutes

Fri, 04/12/2024 - 8:00am
Sierra Space has unveiled a new "global payload delivery" system known as Ghost that is designed to drop vital payloads from orbit to anywhere on Earth's surface within 90 minutes.
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DJI Avata 2 drone review

Fri, 04/12/2024 - 5:58am
The DJI Avata 2 offers an incredibly tantalizing FPV experience that can be as simple or as complicated to fly as you require.
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Scientists identify origin of the 'BOAT' — the brightest cosmic blast of all time

Fri, 04/12/2024 - 5:00am
Astronomers have discovered that the BOAT, the most powerful gamma-ray burst ever detected, came from the supernova death of a massive star 2.4 million light-years away.
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My formal 2024 solar eclipse apology

Thu, 04/11/2024 - 6:00pm
I used to be an eclipse hater, and now I'm not. That's the story.
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Achoo! Baby star 'sneezes' tell astronomers a lot about their development

Thu, 04/11/2024 - 5:00pm
Achoo! Baby stars "sneeze" to rid themselves of excess energy during their formation process, astronomers using the ALMA telescope array have found.
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A NASA spacecraft spotted something weird orbiting the moon. It was just a lunar neighbor (photos)

Thu, 04/11/2024 - 3:00pm
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) snapped a perfectly timed photo as it crossed paths with another spacecraft orbiting the moon.
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Monster star gains magnetic personality following stellar merger

Thu, 04/11/2024 - 2:26pm
A rare massive star possessing a magnetic field could have produced its dynamo after merging with another star.
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Car-sized asteroid gives Earth a super-close shave with flyby closer than some satellites

Thu, 04/11/2024 - 1:29pm
A newly discovered space rock will harmlessly pass by Earth today. Still, at less than a tenth the distance to the moon, asteroid 2024 GJ2 will miss the planet by the skin of its teeth.
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'Star Wars: Tales of the Empire' sets surprise May the 4th debut on Disney Plus (video)

Thu, 04/11/2024 - 1:00pm
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. Before The Acolyte, Star Wars animation will return to our screens with Tales of the Empire, a brand-new anthology series.
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Gravitational waves reveal 1st-of-its-kind merger between neutron star and mystery object

Thu, 04/11/2024 - 12:33pm
The mystery object, which falls right within the mass-gap range, sheds light on a long-sought, murky realm.
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Trains, planes and a total solar eclipse! Watching the moon block the sun was a transportation adventure (exclusive)

Thu, 04/11/2024 - 12:00pm
My family has been in transportation for generations, in planes and trains. I finally got my two ancestral lines to meet, eclipse-style, at a Canadian rail station near an airport.
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Soviet-era cosmonaut Vladimir Aksyonov, who flew into space twice, dies at 89

Thu, 04/11/2024 - 12:00pm
Soviet-era cosmonaut Vladimir Aksyonov, who flew into space twice, has died at the age of 89. Aksyonov logged almost 12 days in space and orbited Earth 189 times.
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Space weather can make it hard to predict satellite trajectories. Here's why that's a problem

Thu, 04/11/2024 - 10:00am
Satellites in low Earth orbit can be hundreds of miles off their expected trajectories when bad space weather hits.
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Stars make a bigger mess in old galaxies, and scientists just figured out why

Thu, 04/11/2024 - 9:00am
More evolved galaxies demonstrate a greater range of stellar motions compared to the orderly, circular orbits of stars like our sun in the Milky Way.
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Top total solar eclipses to look out for over the next decade

Thu, 04/11/2024 - 8:00am
We explore seven of the best solar eclipses to look out for over the next 10 years.
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Japanese astronauts will join NASA moon landings in return for lunar rover

Thu, 04/11/2024 - 6:00am
The first non-American to walk on the moon will be a Japanese astronaut. Two JAXA astronauts will fly on future Artemis landing missions in return for Japan providing a pressurized moon rover.
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Why Peter Higgs leaves a massive legacy in the field of physics

Wed, 04/10/2024 - 6:00pm
On April 8, 2024, Peter Higgs passed away. Pioneering the discovery of the Higgs boson, the mark the theoretical physicist has left on physics is immense.
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See Jupiter close to a crescent moon (Mars near Saturn, too) in the 'View a Planet Day' night sky

Wed, 04/10/2024 - 4:58pm
Jupiter and a slim crescent moon are the stand-out night sky sight in the evening sky right now.
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What happened when the moon 'turned itself inside out' billions of years ago?

Wed, 04/10/2024 - 4:00pm
The moon underwent a reversal around 4.2 billion years ago, flipping itself "inside out" after a giant impact to create the picture of the faithful lunar companion that we see today.
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Could these big expandable habitats help humanity settle the moon and Mars?

Wed, 04/10/2024 - 3:00pm
Max Space is building habitat modules that could expand to enormous sizes in space, giving humanity plenty of room to live in orbit as well as on the moon and Mars.
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