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NASA gives Intuitive Machines $117 million for 2027 mission to moon’s south pole

Submit on Saturday, August 31st, 2024 02:11

Intuitive Machines, which aced the first-ever private moon landing earlier this year, just scored a $117 million NASA contract for a 2027 mission to the lunar south pole.

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The best 50s sci-fi movies

Submit on Saturday, August 31st, 2024 02:11

Explore the greatest sci-fi titles that emerged amidst rock, roll, and the Golden Age in our round-up of the best 50s sci-fi movies.

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NASA’s Perseverance rover begins ambitious ascent up a Mars crater rim

Submit on Saturday, August 31st, 2024 01:11

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has started off on its most ambitious ascent yet to the rim of Jezero Crater.

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NASA cuts 2 astronauts from SpaceX Crew-9 mission to make room for Boeing Starliner crew

Submit on Saturday, August 31st, 2024 00:11

NASA’s Crew-9 mission now has only 2 astronauts instead of 4. The last-minute change gives room to return 2 astronauts on the ISS who needed a new ride home.

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Boeing Starliner astronauts will spend at least 240 days stuck in space — is that a new record?

Submit on Friday, August 30th, 2024 23:11

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams will spend at least eight consecutive months aboard the International Space Station as their Boeing Starliner spacecraft returns to Earth empty. Is their extended spaceflight record-setting?

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‘Doomed’ comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS survives brush with sun — may be visible to naked eye this fall

Submit on Friday, August 30th, 2024 21:11

We provide the latest details on this comet, which might (or might not!) blossom into a bright naked-eye object in our October evening skies.

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Early galaxies weren’t mystifyingly massive after all, James Webb Space Telescope finds

Submit on Friday, August 30th, 2024 20:12

Black holes may be behind why the newborn universe appeared to possess more huge galaxies than scientists could explain, a new study finds.

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How AI is revealing the universe’s original ‘settings’

Submit on Friday, August 30th, 2024 19:11

Astronomers used artificial intelligence to calculate the five cosmological parameters that describe the entire universe in computer simulations with unprecedented precision.

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