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SpaceX rolls Starship spacecraft to pad ahead of Nov. 18 launch (photos)

November 14th, 2024 by

SpaceX just rolled the upper stage of its sixth Starship megarocket out to the pad to gear up for its test flight, which is scheduled for Nov. 18.

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The sun’s poles may have powerful magnetic tornadoes

November 14th, 2024 by

The sun may have swirling polar vortices similar to those on Earth, but powered by a very different source, according to a new study.

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The final supermoon of 2024 rises Nov. 15 as November’s Full Beaver Moon

November 14th, 2024 by

The Full Beaver Moon of November 2024 will be the final of four consecutive supermoons this year, appearing slightly larger in the night sky on Friday (Nov. 15).

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Surprised Russian school kids discover Arctic island has vanished after comparing satellite images

November 14th, 2024 by

The cryovolcanic “centaur” comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually bright in the process. It is the most powerful outburst from the city-size oddball in more than three years.

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‘Snowball Earth:’ Entire planet was likely covered in ice more than 600 million years ago

November 13th, 2024 by

New evidence found in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado supports the notion that Snowball Earth was indeed a global phenomenon.

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NASA dealing with aging ISS and spacewalk hardware: ‘None of our spacesuits are spring chickens’

November 13th, 2024 by

Crew-8 commander Matthew Dominick says NASA is carefully making decisions for astronaut safety while the ISS deals with a leak, and spacesuit issues, related to aging hardware.

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Galaxies get tangled up in ‘the queen’s hair’ in new Hubble Telescope image

November 13th, 2024 by

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured two tangled galaxies, whose interactions have caused knots to form in the constellation Coma Berenice, or the “queen’s hair.”

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Trump appoints SpaceX’s Elon Musk to help head regulation-slashing ‘Department of Government Efficiency’

November 13th, 2024 by

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency, which aims to ‘dismantle government bureaucracy.’

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