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Archive for August, 2024

SpaceX resumes astronaut launches on Aug. 18 with Crew-9 mission to ISS

August 2nd, 2024 by

The ninth crew rotation for SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to lift off on Aug. 18 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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SpaceX launching 23 Starlink satellites to orbit early Aug. 2

August 2nd, 2024 by

SpaceX will launch 23 more of its Starlink satellites to orbit early Friday (Aug. 2), continuing the company’s bounceback from a July 11 failure.

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Never played the Borderlands games? Here’s what you need to know ahead of the Borderlands movie

August 2nd, 2024 by

Don’t know your Claptrap from your Handsome Jack? Here’s everything you need to know about the Borderlands video games before seeing the movie.

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‘Cosmic dawn:’ NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will get baby pictures of our universe

August 2nd, 2024 by

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will look all the way back to cosmic dawn 400 million years after the Big Bang to discover how the universe fundamentally changed at this crucial point in its history.

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Could galaxy cluster collisions be used as dark matter detectors?

August 2nd, 2024 by

Particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider have failed to turn up potential dark matter candidates, but could galaxy cluster smashes be used as cosmic dark matter colliders?

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This mesmerizing NASA animation shows how carbon dioxide moves through Earth’s atmosphere (video)

August 2nd, 2024 by

A high-resolution visualization from NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio shows global carbon dioxide emissions from January to March 2020.

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Saturn threw a comet out of the solar system at 6,700 mph. Here’s how

August 1st, 2024 by

Astronomers have discovered that Saturn has thrown a newly found comet on its way out of the solar system. Comet A117uUD is expected to go interstellar at 6,700 mph.

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If we want to settle on other planets, we’ll have to use genome editing to alter human DNA

August 1st, 2024 by

It sounds like science fiction, but many scientists believe editing the human genome is key to our advancement across the solar system.

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