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SpaceX targeting Feb. 14 for launch of IM-1 private moon mission

Submit on Wednesday, February 7th, 2024 04:11

SpaceX is targeting Feb. 14 for the launch of Intuitive Machine’s IM-1 mission, which aims to become the first private effort to soft-land on the moon.

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India’s Chandrayaan-2 moon orbiter catalogs tons of mysterious solar flares

Submit on Wednesday, February 7th, 2024 03:11

Over the course of 3 years, Chandrayaan-2 observed thousands of mysterious, slow-building, ultra-hot solar flares as they erupted from the sun.

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NASA’s Juno probe snaps outstanding photos of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io during close flyby

Submit on Wednesday, February 7th, 2024 02:11

During its second close rendezvous with Jupiter’s volcanic moon, NASA’s Juno spacecraft collected some amazing images of the scene.

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Asteroid 2024 BX1 fragments confirmed to be rare meteorites as old as the solar system itself

Submit on Wednesday, February 7th, 2024 02:11

When asteroid 2024 BX1 exploded over Earth it littered the planet with rare meteorites that are similar in composition to the unspoiled building blocks of our planet.

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Virgin Galactic mothership loses alignment pin during space plane launch, FAA investigating

Submit on Wednesday, February 7th, 2024 01:11

Virgin Galactic informed the FAA that the mothership of its space plane VSS Unity lost a piece of hardware on its most recent suborbital flight.

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NASA exoplanet telescope discovers ‘super-Earth’ in its star’s Goldilocks zone

Submit on Wednesday, February 7th, 2024 00:11

NASA’s exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS has spotted a ‘super-Earth’ in the habitable zone of its red dwarf star, with indications it may have Earth-sized company.

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Watch the sun spit out colossal plasma plume during powerful solar flare eruption (video)

Submit on Tuesday, February 6th, 2024 23:11

Watch the moment a huge plasma plume is hurled out from the sun during a powerful solar flare eruption, causing widespread radio blackouts in the South Pacific.

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Best budget binoculars 2024: Cheap but high-quality models

Submit on Tuesday, February 6th, 2024 22:11

Here are our top picks of affordable yet good-quality budget binoculars.

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