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Archive for February, 2021

The International Space Station will fly over Super Bowl 2021 stadium for the big game

February 7th, 2021 by

Astronauts on the International Space Station just might have the ultimate nosebleed seats for Super Bowl 2021.

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Apes, robots and men: The life and death of the first space chimp

February 7th, 2021 by

On January 31, 1961, an intrepid chimpanzee called Ham was launched on a rocket from Cape Canaveral in the United States, and returned to Earth alive. In this process, he became the first hominin in space.

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Seas will likely rise even faster than worst-case scenarios predicted by climate models

February 7th, 2021 by

Sea levels will probably rise faster than the most mainstream climate models predict, according to a new study.

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Clues about Mars’ atmosphere may lie on the surface of its moon Phobos

February 7th, 2021 by

The doomed Martian moon Phobos, which is on a slow death spiral above the Red Planet, may hold some secrets about how Mars was formed.

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A giant black hole suddenly went dark, and no one knows why

February 6th, 2021 by

In 2018, one of the brightest X-ray lights in the sky went dark, and scientists still aren’t sure why.

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Chinese researchers to send an ‘uncrackable’ quantum message to space

February 6th, 2021 by

It’s now possible to send uncrackable quantum messages through thin air, and the people who figured out how to do it are getting ready to send the messages into space.

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Apollo 15 landing site is strikingly clear in image captured from Earth

February 6th, 2021 by

Scientists used powerful radar signals to capture the image.

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SpaceX secures contract to launch NASA’s SPHEREx astrophysics mission

February 5th, 2021 by

SpaceX will be launching an astrophysics mission for NASA.

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