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Floating blue-eyed robot keeps watch on the ISS: Space photo of the day

Submit on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025 00:11

Looking like a soccer ball with glowing blue eyes, the Japanese Experiment Module Internal Ball Camera-2 is put to test aboard the International Space Station.

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DARPA accidentally detects SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket reentry by listening to Earth’s atmosphere

Submit on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025 00:11

Researchers with the U.S. military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have successfully used Earth’s atmosphere as a sensor to detect a distant disturbance.

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Cryptocurrency billionaire watches SpaceX rocket launch on the way to his own SpaceX rocket launch

Submit on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025 00:11

Cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang and his Fram2 private astronaut crew got a two-for-one deal when they watched a rocket launch ahead of their own launch on March 31.

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Watch chilling 1st views of Earth’s poles seen by SpaceX Fram2 astronauts (video)

Submit on Tuesday, April 1st, 2025 22:11

The first images of Earth’s poles from the Fram2 Crew Dragon have been uploaded from the orbiting spacecraft, and the views are breathtaking.

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Million-mile-long solar whirlwind could help solve sun’s greatest mysteries (video)

Submit on Tuesday, April 1st, 2025 22:11

Europe’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft has chronicled the development of the magnetic escape of plasma driven out by a powerful magnetic reconnection event.

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NASA’s X-59 ‘quiet’ supersonic jet aces key ‘cruise control’ test ahead of 1st flight

Submit on Tuesday, April 1st, 2025 21:11

NASA’s “quiet” new supersonic jet, the X-59, just passed a key engine test, bringing it closer to its first flight later this year.

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Scientists used JWST instruments ‘wrong’ on purpose to capture direct images of exoplanets

Submit on Tuesday, April 1st, 2025 20:11

The JWST was used in a creative way to capture direct images of distant worlds.

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Sun unleashes powerful M5.6 solar flare and Earth is in the firing line — are auroras incoming?

Submit on Tuesday, April 1st, 2025 19:11

After last week’s explosive X-flare, sunspot AR4046 is at it again! Could this latest eruption bring stormy space weather to Earth?

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