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SpaceX fires up Starship spacecraft ahead of 10th test flight (video, photos)

Submit on Friday, August 1st, 2025 19:11

SpaceX performed a single-engine “static fire” trial with its newest Starship spacecraft on Thursday (July 31), to help prep the vehicle for an upcoming test flight.

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Did ‘primordial’ black holes born right after the Big Bang help our universe’s 1st stars form?

Submit on Friday, August 1st, 2025 17:11

New research suggests that primordial black holes could have played an important role in the formation of the universe’s first stars, but did they help or hinder?

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Is life widespread throughout the cosmos? Complex organic molecules found in planet-birthing disk

Submit on Friday, August 1st, 2025 04:11

Complex organic molecules that could be the precursors to the building blocks of life as we know it have been discovered in a disk of gas and dust swirling around an infant star.

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Einstein was wrong (slightly) about quantum physics, new version of the famous double-slit experiment reveals

Submit on Friday, August 1st, 2025 04:11

A new version of the famous double-slit experiment showed that it’s impossible to measure light as both a wave and a particle at the same time, thanks to quantum physics’ uncertainty principle.

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SpaceX launches 19 Starlink satellites from California, lands rocket on ship at sea (video)

Submit on Friday, August 1st, 2025 02:11

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 19 Starlink satellites from California’s central coast today (July 31), then came back to Earth for a landing on a ship at sea.

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Satellites reveal a hidden lake burst through Greenland Ice Sheet in 2014, causing major flooding and a deep crater

Submit on Friday, August 1st, 2025 01:11

A hidden lake beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet unexpectedly drained more than a decade ago, fracturing the ice surface and forming a large crater — an event only recently uncovered by Earth-observing satellites.

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SpaceX, NASA scrub Crew-11 astronaut launch due to weather (video)

Submit on Friday, August 1st, 2025 00:11

SpaceX scrubbed the launch of its Crew-11 astronaut mission for NASA just a minute before liftoff today (July 31) after clouds intruded.

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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin will launch next space tourism mission on Aug. 3

Submit on Friday, August 1st, 2025 00:11

Blue Origin is targeting Sunday (Aug. 3) for the launch of its next suborbital tourism mission, which will send crypto billionaire Justin Sun and five other people to the final frontier.

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