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Archive for March 18th, 2025

Punch it! ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Season 4 starts filming before Season 3 even airs

March 18th, 2025 by me

Paramount celebrates with a USS Enterprise bridge photo and new Season 3 character posters

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New cosmic ‘baby pictures’ reveal our universe taking its 1st steps towards stars and galaxies

March 18th, 2025 by me

The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe’s infancy from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope show the first steps toward the first stars and galaxies.

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Private Starlab space station moves into ‘full-scale development’ ahead of 2028 launch

March 18th, 2025 by me

The Starlab commercial space station project is moving toward the production phase, having passed a key development milestone with NASA.

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Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer poses a threat to hit Earth, but we can still hit it — for science!

March 18th, 2025 by me

Despite a brief panic, asteroid 2024 YR4 isn’t likely to hit us anytime soon, but we can still study the asteroid up close to help us understand these space rocks.

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‘Apollo 1’ director surprised by details of ill-fated mission in new documentary

March 18th, 2025 by me

It was the opening scene of “Apollo 13” and was recreated for the Neil Armstrong biopic “First Man.” It was also included in director Mark Craig’s “Last Man on the Moon,” inspiring “Apollo 1.”

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The far side of the moon was once a vast magma ocean, Chinese lunar lander confirms

March 18th, 2025 by me

New findings from China’s Chang’e 6 lunar farside samples offer insights into the moon’s volcanic past and mantle evolution.

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Why NASA’s Starliner astronauts spent 9 months in space on a 10-day mission: A timeline

March 18th, 2025 by me

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are on their way home from a nine-month space mission that was supposed to last just 10 days. Here’s a rundown of their eventful time off Earth.

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What time will NASA’s Starliner astronauts land with SpaceX’s Crew-9 today? How to watch live.

March 18th, 2025 by me

SpaceX is poised to land its Crew Dragon Freedom with the two ISS crewmates who launched on it and two astronauts who arrived at the space station in June on Boeing’s Starliner. Here’s how to see it.

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