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Archive for May, 2021

On This Day in Space! May 10, 1967: M2-F2 lifting body crashes

May 10th, 2021 by

On May 10, 1967, a NASA research aircraft known as the wingless M2-F2 lifting body crashed on Rogers Dry Lakebed at the Dryden Flight Research Center in California. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

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ESA launches hilarious ‘European Space-Ody’ with spin on a classic Queen song

May 10th, 2021 by

ESA employees create a music video parody of Queen’s song “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

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‘Oddball’ star shocks scientists with strange supernova

May 10th, 2021 by

A massive “oddball” star’s violent death has scientists puzzled.

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On This Day in Space! May 9, 2003: Japan launches Hayabusa mission to asteroid

May 9th, 2021 by

On May 9, 2003, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launched the first-ever asteroid sample return mission, Hayabusa. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

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SpaceX’s Elon Musk lands on ‘Saturday Night Live’ to talk space, Mars (and yes, Dogecoin)

May 9th, 2021 by

SpaceX founder Elon Musk landed on late-night TV Saturday (May 8) as the host of “Saturday Night Live.”

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Physicists get close to taming the chaos of the ‘three-body problem’

May 9th, 2021 by

The intractable “three-body problem” gets closer to being solved with breakthrough study.

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8 extremely rare ‘millisecond pulsars’ discovered inside globular clusters

May 9th, 2021 by

Scientists using South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope have detected 8 new millisecond pulsars in the hearts of globular clusters.

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Huge Chinese rocket booster falls to Earth over Arabian Peninsula

May 9th, 2021 by

The 23-ton core stage of a Chinese Long March 5B booster crashed back to Earth Saturday night (May 8), ending 10 controversial days aloft that captured the attention of the world.

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