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Archive for July, 2024

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover finds possible signs of ancient Red Planet life

July 26th, 2024 by

NASA’s Perseverance rover stumbled upon a Mars rock. It seems to suggest evidence of ancient life on the Red Planet.

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Powerful wildfires devastating Canada captured in satellite imagery

July 26th, 2024 by

A rapidly spreading wildfire burns through part of the largest national park in the Canadian Rockies as satellites track its growth and movement.

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Discovery of ‘dark oxygen’ from deep-sea metal lumps could trigger rethink of origins of life

July 26th, 2024 by

In a global first, scientists working in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the North Pacific Ocean have found that metallic nodules on the seafloor produce their own oxygen, dubbed “dark oxygen.”

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X-rays reveal secret gas in huge and distant galaxy cluster

July 26th, 2024 by

The Euclid and XMM-Newton missions have combined to show the hidden, hot gas that fills an immense galaxy cluster 2.7 billion light-years away.

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50 days after launch to ISS, Boeing’s Starliner still has no landing date

July 26th, 2024 by

Boeing’s Starliner does not have a landing date yet, but the troubleshooting is making progress. Engineers plan a “hot fire” test this weekend to see how the spacecraft does in orbit.

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Runaway ‘failed star’ races through the cosmos at 1.2 million mph

July 26th, 2024 by

Citizen scientists have discovered what may be a brown dwarf racing through the cosmos at around 1.2 million miles per hour. Now astronomers want to know what launched it.

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Next Blue Origin space tourism flight will launch youngest woman above the Kármán line

July 26th, 2024 by

Blue Origin has announced the six crewmembers for its next space tourism flight. One of them will become the youngest woman to cross the Kármán line.

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Marvel’s main ‘Star Wars’ comic book line to progress into the New Republic era this fall

July 26th, 2024 by

Starting this October, Marvel’s core Star Wars line will move past Return of the Jedi and into a new era of storytelling set before The Mandalorian.

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