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NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter soars past 100 minutes of total Mars flight time

Submit on Thursday, September 7th, 2023 04:11

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter flew for the 57th time on Sept. 3, a sortie that pushed the robot’s total Red Planet air time over 100 minutes.

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‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ drops a wild new Season 4 trailer and official poster (video)

Submit on Thursday, September 7th, 2023 03:13

Paramount+ released a new “Star Trek: Lower Decks” Season 4 trailer and official poster ahead of the season premiere on Thursday (Sept. 7).

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Hubble Space Telescope sees lonely galaxy looming in isolation (photo)

Submit on Thursday, September 7th, 2023 03:13

A distant galaxy sits isolated in a new photo from the powerful observatory.

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See the sun’s atmosphere like never before thanks to a simple Solar Orbiter camera hack (video)

Submit on Thursday, September 7th, 2023 02:14

The European Solar Orbiter spacecraft has peered into yet unexplored parts of the sun’s atmosphere thanks to a simple hack to its main camera.

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Orbiting debris trackers could be a game changer in space junk monitoring

Submit on Thursday, September 7th, 2023 01:12

Tiny devices on satellites could soon track small pieces of space debris that are invisible to existing space junk monitoring systems but capable of destroying spacecraft if they collide with it.

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Here’s our last look at Europe’s Aeolus satellite falling to its fiery death (photo)

Submit on Thursday, September 7th, 2023 01:12

ESA’s wind-measuring Aeolus satellite was spotted before its flaming demise over Antarctica.

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Could an ‘Earth-like’ planet be hiding in our solar system’s outer reaches?

Submit on Thursday, September 7th, 2023 00:14

A hypothetical Kuiper Belt Planet in the far reaches of our solar system could help explain the peculiar orbits of many trans-Neptunian objects.

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Caroline Herschel was England’s first female professional astronomer, but still lacks name recognition two centuries later

Submit on Wednesday, September 6th, 2023 23:12

Caroline Herschel, the first English professional female astronomer, made contributions to astronomy that are still important to the field today.

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