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Ice-penetrating radar will help JUICE and other spacecraft find water beyond Earth

Submit on Friday, April 26th, 2024 01:11

When it arrives at Jupiter and the planet’s moons in 2031, the JUICE spacecraft will use ice-penetrating radar to see beneath determine habitability.

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Watch live today as NASA astronauts fly to launch site for 1st crewed Boeing Starliner mission to ISS

Submit on Friday, April 26th, 2024 00:11

Veteran NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will be the first crew aboard Boeing’s Starliner. Watch live here at Space.com as they arrive in Florida for their May 6 launch.

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‘Rocket cam’ takes you aboard final launch of ULA’s Delta IV Heavy (video)

Submit on Friday, April 26th, 2024 00:11

After 64 years, the United Launch Alliance launched the final flight of its Delta IV Heavy rocket on April 9th, and stunning rocket cam footage captured the fiery finale.

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Stellar detectives find suspect for incredibly powerful ‘superflares’

Submit on Thursday, April 25th, 2024 23:11

Some stars erupt with ‘superflares’ 10,000 times as powerful as solar flares from the sun. A team of “stellar detectives” are on the case and may now know why some stars are so violent.

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NASA’s Fermi space telescope finds a strange supernova with missing gamma rays

Submit on Thursday, April 25th, 2024 23:11

NASA’s Fermi Space Telescope has failed to see gamma rays from a nearby supernova that should be created when it generates the high-energy cosmic rays that bombard Earth in their trillions.

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China launches 3 astronauts to Tiangong space station on Shenzhou 18 mission (video)

Submit on Thursday, April 25th, 2024 21:11

A Long March 2F rocket lifted off from China’s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center today (April 25), carrying the Shenzhou 18 spacecraft and its three-person crew into orbit.

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‘Star Trek: Discovery’ S05, E05 is a quality installment, but it’s weighed down by another anchor of nostalgia

Submit on Thursday, April 25th, 2024 21:11

The chase across the galaxy for the Progenitors MacGuffin continues, offering chances to insert stand-alone, episode-length adventures along the way.

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Across the universe, dark matter annihilation could be warming up dead stars

Submit on Thursday, April 25th, 2024 20:11

Neutron stars could act as gravitational traps for dark matter, forcing these mysterious particles to collide, annihilate and warm up otherwise cold dead stars.

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