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Last supermoon of 2023 rises this week. Don’t miss the Harvest Moon shine with 3 bright planets

Submit on Monday, September 25th, 2023 21:11

This year’s final supermoon, September’s Harvest Full Moon, rises on Friday, Sept. 29, bringing a summer of supermoons to a close and joined by a planetary parade of Jupiter, Saturn, and Mercury.

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Heating and cooling space habitats isn’t easy – one engineering team is developing a lighter, more efficient solution

Submit on Monday, September 25th, 2023 20:11

It’s hard to keep a spacecraft cool, but ongoing research on the International Space Station might yield a solution.

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Nuclear ‘pasta’ cooked up by dead stars could unravel the secrets of stellar afterlife

Submit on Monday, September 25th, 2023 19:11

In the extreme hearts of neutron stars, fundamental particles are twisted into strange ‘pasta’ shapes that could reveal untold secrets about how dead stars evolve.

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Our entire galaxy is warping, and a gigantic blob of dark matter could be to blame

Submit on Monday, September 25th, 2023 17:11

An invisible halo of misaligned dark matter could explain the warps at the Milky Way’s edges.

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After NASA’s epic OSIRIS-REx capsule landing success, spacecraft heads to asteroid Apophis on new mission

Submit on Monday, September 25th, 2023 17:11

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe, which delivered samples of the space rock Bennu to Earth, is now on an extended voyage to study the infamous near-Earth asteroid Apophis.

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx capsule just landed with samples of asteroid Bennu. Next stop: Texas

Submit on Monday, September 25th, 2023 00:11

Hey NASA, you’ve just landed your first samples from an asteroid! Where are they going next? Houston, of course.

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx lands samples of asteroid Bennu to Earth after historic 4-billion-mile journey

Submit on Sunday, September 24th, 2023 23:11

NASA successfully recovered a capsule containing samples of asteroid Bennu taken by its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2020.

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft releases asteroid sample capsule toward Earth in flyby, heads to Apophis

Submit on Sunday, September 24th, 2023 20:12

The first asteroid samples ever collected by NASA are closing in on Earth for a historic landing in Utah today (Sept. 24).

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