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SpaceX Starship launches: Live updates

Submit on Saturday, October 12th, 2024 07:11

Read the latest news about SpaceX’s Starship megarocket test flights, launches, photos and more.

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‘Stunning was the word’: Astronauts snap amazing aurora photo from ISS during severe geomagnetic storm

Submit on Saturday, October 12th, 2024 05:11

NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Matthew Dominick captured a supercharged, super-red aurora display from the International Space Station.

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James Webb Space Telescope spies ‘inside-out’ star formation in ancient galaxy (image)

Submit on Saturday, October 12th, 2024 02:11

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed ‘inside-out’ star formation in a galaxy just 700 million years after the Big Bang, fleshing out our understanding of the early universe.

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Hints of volcanic moon around alien planet may be 1st-of-its-kind discovery (video)

Submit on Saturday, October 12th, 2024 01:11

A sodium cloud detected in the vicinity of an exoplanet named WASP-49 b hints at the presence of a natural satellite, also known as an exomoon.

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The key ingredients for life on Earth came from space, new evidence suggests

Submit on Saturday, October 12th, 2024 01:11

The vital ingredients for life on Earth may have been delivered by meteorites from larger bodies called “planetesimals” in the early solar system. The discovery could assist in the search for alien life.

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Nearby exoplanet is a 1st-of-its-kind ‘steam world,’ James Webb Space Telescope finds

Submit on Friday, October 11th, 2024 23:11

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found a “first of its kind” world, an exoplanet that is twice the size of Earth and has an atmosphere packed with steam.

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Space Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane to attempt new ‘aerobraking’ maneuvers in orbit

Submit on Friday, October 11th, 2024 22:11

The U.S. military’s X-37B space plane is about to begin a series of novel maneuvers, according to a rare official update on the spacecraft.

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Nabta Playa: A mysterious stone circle that may be the world’s oldest astronomical observatory

Submit on Friday, October 11th, 2024 21:11

Nabta Playa in Egypt is an ancient stone circle that researchers suspect was used to determine the summer solstice, which signaled rain was on the way.

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