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Atlas V rocket to launch Space Force’s ‘watchdog’ satellite Silent Barker on Aug. 28. Here’s how to watch live

Submit on Tuesday, August 29th, 2023 01:12

United Launch Alliance (ULA) will launch the Silent Barker mission on Tuesday (Aug. 29) on the behalf of the Space Force and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).

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What time is the Super Blue Moon of 2023?

Submit on Tuesday, August 29th, 2023 01:12

The Blue Moon of 2023 and this year’s third supermoon occurs on Wednesday, Aug. 30, so skywatchers will want to get their timing right to see the moon at its biggest and brightest.

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India’s Chandrayaan-3 takes the moon’s temperature near lunar south pole for 1st time

Submit on Tuesday, August 29th, 2023 00:12

Chandrayaan-3 creates first temperature profile near the moon’s south pole; ISRO offers more updates on the historic lunar mission.

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Quantum ‘yin-yang’ shows two photons being entangled in real-time

Submit on Monday, August 28th, 2023 22:11

The stunning experiment, which reconstructs the properties of entangled photons from a 2D interference pattern, could be used to design faster quantum computers.

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Pragyan, Vikram, Vikas: How the names of India’s Chandrayaan-3 moon mission were chosen

Submit on Monday, August 28th, 2023 20:11

As India steadily establishes its roots in space exploration, Sanskrit, whose use sharply declined after the 13th century, seems to be once again coming into the limelight.

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Landslides on Mars suggest water once surrounded Olympus Mons, tallest volcano in the solar system

Submit on Monday, August 28th, 2023 19:11

A wrinkled patch of land near the volcano’s northern region likely formed when blisteringly hot lava oozed out of the summit millions of years ago, hitting water ice at the mountain’s base.

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August’s Blue Moon, the biggest full moon of 2023, rises this week

Submit on Monday, August 28th, 2023 17:11

In addition to its “supermoon” status, this particular full moon will be the second to occur in the month of August, making the full moon on Aug. 30 also branded as a “Blue” moon.

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Astronauts’ immune systems could be disturbed by microgravity, scientists find

Submit on Monday, August 28th, 2023 17:11

As a new era of crewed space exploration comes into view, scientists are assessing the impacts of microgravity and space environments on astronauts’ immune systems.

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