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What’s it like to buzz an Artemis SLS moon rocket with a supersonic jet? NASA’s Artemis 2 commander tells all

Submit on Wednesday, December 20th, 2023 20:12

When Artemis 1’s moon rocket arrived on the launch pad in 2022, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman spent months gathering a group to fly over it.

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Firefly Aerospace launching 4th-ever mission today: Watch live

Submit on Wednesday, December 20th, 2023 18:12

Firefly Aerospace plans to launch a mission called ‘Fly the Lightning’ today (Dec. 19), and you can watch the action live.

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Strange ‘slide whistle’ fast radio burst picked up by alien-hunting telescope defies explanation

Submit on Wednesday, December 20th, 2023 08:12

The fascinating patterns of 35 repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) reveal new properties of these mysterious blasts of deep-space radiation that appear and disappear in milliseconds.

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Watch Chinese astronauts get haircuts aboard Tiangong space station (video)

Submit on Wednesday, December 20th, 2023 05:12

Shenzhou 17 commander Tang Hongbo and rookie crewmates Tang Shengjie and Jiang Xinlin recently helped each other get haircuts aboard China’s Tiangong space station.

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How the runaway greenhouse gas effect can destroy a planet’s habitability — including Earth’s

Submit on Wednesday, December 20th, 2023 04:12

Scientists watched as a simulated planet was driven from a habitable Earth-like heaven to an inhospitable Venus-like hell as the result of a runaway greenhouse effect, delivering a stark climate message.

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NASA laser-beams adorable cat video to Earth from 19 million miles away (video)

Submit on Wednesday, December 20th, 2023 02:11

NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications experiment streamed a high-definition video of Taters the cat to Earth from 19 miles (31 million km) away in a groundbreaking demonstration.

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Pew! Pew! Pew! NASA’s 1st successful two-way laser experiment is a giant leap for moon and Mars communications

Submit on Wednesday, December 20th, 2023 01:12

NASA has completed its first laser link with an in-orbit laser relay system, marking a significant advancement in space communication technology.

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Hubble Telescope captures a galaxy’s ‘forbidden’ light in stunning new image

Submit on Wednesday, December 20th, 2023 00:11

The “forbidden” light of the spiral galaxy MCG-01-24-014 is captured in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope, suggesting the galaxy contradicts common rules of quantum physics.

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