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Archive for March, 2021

Panic and paranoia strike in 1st trailer for new sci-fi thriller ‘Voyagers’

March 11th, 2021 by

Director Neil Burger heads into deep space on a crazy colony ship in “Voyagers.”

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SpaceX launches 60 new Starlink satellites to orbit, nails rocket landing at sea

March 11th, 2021 by

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a new batch of 60 Starlink internet satellites to orbit early this morning (March 11) and nailed its landing on a floating platform at sea.

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Watch live @ 10 pm ET Thursday: Mars Helicopter team discusses flying on Red Planet

March 11th, 2021 by

NASA is about to fly a helicopter on Mars for the first time ever, and you can learn more about the upcoming effort during a webcast event tonight (March 11) at 10 p.m. EST (0300 GMT on March 12).

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Watch live Thursday: SpaceX launching 60 new Starlink satellites @ 3:13 am ET

March 11th, 2021 by

Liftoff is at 3:13 a.m. EST (0513 GMT).

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Thousands more satellites will soon orbit Earth. We need better rules to prevent space crashes.

March 10th, 2021 by

In recent years, satellites have become smaller, cheaper, and easier to make with commercial off the shelf parts.

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Rare supernova relic found at the core of our Milky Way

March 10th, 2021 by

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered the remains of a rare kind of stellar explosion near the center of the Milky Way.

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Andrew Chaikin’s ‘A Man on the Moon’ relaunched as Folio Society book set

March 10th, 2021 by

When Andrew Chaikin’s “A Man on the Moon” was first published in 1994, a quarter century had passed since the first astronauts walked on the lunar surface.

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The Perseverance rover has recorded the 1st laser sound on Mars. It’s a ‘snap!’ not a ‘pew!’

March 10th, 2021 by

The microphone on Perseverance’s SuperCam instrument picked up the gentle whoosh of the Martian wind as well as the not-so-gentle sounds generated by SuperCam’s rock-zapping laser.

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