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Archive for September, 2023

Australia launching moon rover on NASA Artemis mission as soon as 2026

September 6th, 2023 by

Australia will launch its first moon rover as early as 2026, on one of NASA’s Artemis missions. And you can help name the rover — if you’re an Australian resident.

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Sex between space tourists will happen eventually. But are we ready for babies conceived off Earth?

September 6th, 2023 by

Considering that space travel is no longer reserved for professional astronauts, the various motivations of space tourists and upcoming spacecraft developments, we concluded that in-space sex will probably happen within the next ten years.

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Supermassive black hole accretion disk seen ‘on the edge’ for 1st time

September 6th, 2023 by

Astronomers have imaged the outskirts of an accretion disk gradually feeding a supermassive black hole for the first time, potentially boosting our understanding of such hungry cosmic monsters.

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Is ‘Starfield’ a far-flung fantasy or a glimpse of mankind’s space-bound future?

September 6th, 2023 by

What to expect from Bethesda Game Studio’s new space settlement adventure Starfield and its take on life among the stars.

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Star blows giant exoplanet’s atmosphere away, leaving massive tail in its wake

September 6th, 2023 by

A hot Jupiter exoplanet is blowing its top like a cartoon character throwing a tantrum, creating a tail of gas that is the largest planetary structure seen outside the solar system.

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India’s Chandrayaan-3 moon lander spotted from lunar orbit (photo)

September 6th, 2023 by

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has snapped a photo of India’s Chandrayaan-3 moon lander, the first craft ever to soft-land near the lunar south pole.

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Tiny satellites use AI to sniff for methane leaks on the ground (photos)

September 6th, 2023 by

This startup wants to take methane leak detection from space to the next level with the help of AI.

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Weirdly wobbly jets may be evidence of elusive supermassive black hole pairings

September 6th, 2023 by

The ‘wobble’ of jets blasting out from active galaxies, or blazars, is ‘smoking gun’ evidence for supermassive black hole binary systems that elude astronomers, a new study reports.

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