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Archive for August, 2024

Big news! ‘The Orville’ is getting a 4th season, actor confirms

August 9th, 2024 by

At the annual ‘Star Trek’ Las Vegas convention, the actor who plays Lt. Malloy in ‘The Orville’ made the announcement to a small crowd of very lucky show aficionados.

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Mars Express orbiter takes a deep dive into ancient Red Planet lake (images)

August 9th, 2024 by

The Mars Express spacecraft has taken a “deep dive” into Caralis Chaos, an ancient lake on the Red Planet believed to have been larger than any body of water on Earth.

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These nearby star systems could be good targets in the search for alien life

August 9th, 2024 by

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray space telescope, scientists have investigated if nearby exoplanets could support life, or if their stars are blasting them with too much deadly high-energy radiation.

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The spaceships of the Alien movies

August 9th, 2024 by

Alien: Romulus is almost here, so we’re diving back into all things Alien, including the coolest spaceships the movies have had so far. These are our favorites.

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Over 350 asteroids have hidden moons, Gaia space telescope finds

August 9th, 2024 by

By precisely tracking the orbit of over 156,000 asteroids, the ESA star-surveying satellite Gaia has potentially found over 350 previously undiscovered asteroid-moon binaries.

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‘World’s oldest calendar’ discovered carved into ancient monument

August 8th, 2024 by

A controversial comet strike theory has been circulating for 20 years. Now a group of researchers say they have found new evidence for it in ancient carvings at Göbekli Tepe, in Turkey.

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Aurora alert: Possible geomagnetic storm could see northern lights alongside Perseid meteor shower this weekend

August 8th, 2024 by

Northern lights could be visible over some northern and upper Midwest states on Aug. 9 and Aug. 10. A geomagnetic storm watch has been issued by NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center.

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Astronaut Jon McBride, early NASA space shuttle pilot, dies at 80

August 8th, 2024 by

Former NASA astronaut Jon McBride, who was the pilot on the first mission to launch seven people into space, has died at the age of 80. McBride flew on STS-41G, Challenger’s sixth flight, in 1984.

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