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Archive for August 21st, 2024

Polaris Dawn mission: Meet the crew taking 1st commercial spacewalk

August 21st, 2024 by

Veteran astronaut Jared Isaacman, a billionaire, is funding and flying on SpaceX Polaris Dawn with three other astronauts. Here who is going to space.

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Take a mind-bending trip to Titan in exclusive ‘Slingshot’ featurette (video)

August 21st, 2024 by

Watch exclusive featurette for Bleecker Street’s new sci-fi thriller, “Slingshot,” which premieres in theaters on Aug. 30.

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Space mining startup AstroForge aims to launch historic asteroid-landing mission in 2025

August 21st, 2024 by

Asteroid-mining startup AstroForge plans to launch its third mission, which will land on a metallic space rock, in 2025.

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Astrophotographer captures Saturn vanishing behind the moon in mesmerizing photo

August 21st, 2024 by

Check out this mesmerizing photo showing Saturn disappearing and then reappearing from behind the moon during the lunar occultation on Aug. 21.

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Earth’s days once got 2 hours longer — and that may have triggered one of the biggest evolutionary explosions in history, study suggests

August 21st, 2024 by

The moon once drifted thousands of miles farther away, and Earth’s days got 2.2 hours longer, a new study finds.

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Giant exoplanet the size of 2 Jupiters has a hidden companion disturbing its orbit

August 21st, 2024 by

Using the NASA exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS, astronomers have discovered a hot Jupiter dancing with a hidden super-Earth companion.

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Perseverance rover’s Mars samples must be brought back to Earth, scientists stress

August 21st, 2024 by

Sedimentary deposits sampled by the Perseverance rover could contain evidence of past Martian life.

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How do supermassive black holes ‘starve’ their galaxies to halt star formation?

August 21st, 2024 by

The “deaths” of galaxies are caused by their central supermassive black holes, and the “smoking gun” evidence of this connection takes an unexpected form.

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