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Largest-ever discovery of ‘missing link’ black holes revealed by dark energy camera (video)

Submit on Thursday, February 20th, 2025 00:11

Using a revolutionary dark energy camera, astronomers have discovered the largest haul of “missing link” intermediate-mass black holes ever seen, but there should have been more.

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The next giant leap? How jumping could help astronauts train for trips to the moon and Mars

Submit on Thursday, February 20th, 2025 00:11

Scientists suggest adding jumping exercises to astronauts’ training regimens, to minimize the health effects of long space missions, such as moon and Mars trips.

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Want a workout? Try walking to the top of the world’s largest telescope (photo)

Submit on Wednesday, February 19th, 2025 22:11

The world’s largest telescope continues to take shape on the Cerro Armazones mountain in Chile’s Atacama Desert.

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Blue Ghost moon lander lowers its orbit to fly closer to the lunar surface (video)

Submit on Wednesday, February 19th, 2025 21:11

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander lowered its orbit around the moon Tuesday (Feb. 18), sending back gorgeous footage from just over the lunar surface.

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7 planets are aligned in the night sky right now. But what’s that mean for science?

Submit on Wednesday, February 19th, 2025 18:11

In February 2025, all seven of our planetary neighbors will be visible from Earth. So what does such a planetary alignment mean for science? Well, not much — unless you’re an interplanetary spacecraft.

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I want to believe — but yet another massive search for alien technosignatures just turned up nothing

Submit on Wednesday, February 19th, 2025 17:11

Hunting for alien civilizations isn’t a matter of just waiting around for them to show up; it’s the business of combing through enormous volumes of data to look for peculiar signals.

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Boeing plans to lay off hundreds of employees working on NASA’s SLS moon rocket: reports

Submit on Wednesday, February 19th, 2025 06:11

Boeing is preparing to lay off roughly 200 employees working on the Space Launch System rocket as it braces for the possibility that its contracts with NASA may not be renewed after they end in March.

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Japan’s Resilience moon lander aces lunar flyby ahead of historic touchdown try (photo)

Submit on Wednesday, February 19th, 2025 05:11

Resilience, a lunar lander built by Japanese company ispace, zoomed within a mere 5,220 miles (8,400 kilometers) of the moon on Feb. 14.

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