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Could the next great space race involve China?
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Hubble Space Telescope captures stunning red view of the Soul Nebula
A spectacular new image shows the Soul Nebula infused with red light, highlighting a tadpole-like dense region of gas.
- Popular Mechanics
Physicist Reveals What the Fourth Dimension Looks Like
In a new video, a physicist reveals what the fourth dimension looks like—and where it may be.
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Columbia disaster that scuttled the space shuttle
America may now be aiming to put astronauts back on the Moon, but for years the United States turned its back on manned missions after the Columbia space shuttle disaster.After the Columbia disaster, NASA underwent sweeping changes aimed at improving its culture and safety.
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Watch NASA Test a 3D-Printed Rocket Engine Made for Deep Space Travel
It’s a pretty exciting time to be a space nerd right now. Agencies around the world recently came together to launch the most advanced telescope ever into orbit, startups are promising increasingly sci-fi means of traveling into orbit and NASA is hard at work getting humans back to the moon. That mission took a step closer to reality recently, when the American space agency began testing the rocket that could get us there.
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Watch SpaceX launch 49 Starlink internet satellites to orbit Tuesday after delays
SpaceX plans to launch another set of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit on Tuesday (Jan. 31), and you can watch the action live.
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Harpole Treasure reveals medieval garnet on 'unique' cross
A garnet is found as archaeologists painstakingly examine a silver cross buried near Northampton.
- SYFY
Did the Earth's core really stop spinning or reverse direction?
In NBC’s science fiction drama La Brea (now streaming on Peacock!), a sinkhole opens up under the La Brea Tar Pits, swallowing a few hundred people along with buildings, vehicles, and whatever else happened to be within its circle of influence. When the survivors come to at the bottom of their fall, they find themselves in an unusual but strangely familiar world. In La Brea, all of the weirdness inside of the Earth’s interior can be laid at the feet of a weird time travel portal, which sent the
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Watch the moon eclipse Mars tonight
On Monday (Jan. 30), the moon will pass in front of Mars from the perspective of Earth in what's known as an occultation. The moon and Mars will also reach conjunction and appulse.
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Tylenol murder investigators order new DNA tests on key evidence from 1982
On Sept. 29, 1982, and over the next week, seven people were murdered in the Chicago area after unknowingly taking Tylenol pills that were spiked by a killer.
- The Daily Beast
Why Is an Ancient Egyptian Mass Grave of Dogs ‘Stumping Archaeologists’?
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesA new story about a strange burial is making the rounds on archaeology sites and online news sources. According to Heritage Daily, archaeologists excavating in the Fayum uncovered the remains of an 8-year-old child and 142 dogs in a late antique Egyptian necropolis. The “amazing discovery” has everyone puzzled.According to the press report, Russian archaeologists affiliated with the Center for Egyptological Studies of the Russian Aca
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Hefty meteorite containing materials billions of years old found by researchers in Antarctica
Researchers made an out-of-this-world discovery in Antarctica's frozen landscape when they found a nearly 20-pound meteorite that contains some of the oldest materials in our solar system lying among the snow and ice.
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NASA spies Martian rocks that look just like a teddy bear
A broken hill, an ancient crater and the human tendency to find faces everywhere may explain the teddy bear on Mars.
- Gizmodo
Nobody Is Happy With the Federal Grazing Program
At the first National Forest site we visited in California’s remote Modoc Plateau, nearly every plant had been chewed on by cattle. The botanists, there to track down and collect seeds from rare plants, pointed out the soil erosion from stomping hooves. The cow pies were everywhere, unavoidable on the steep roadside slope, and they crunched or squished under our boots. The seeds we had come to collect, from a delphinium only known to exist in a handful of places in the state (though more common
- The Repository
Sky Shorts: We'll see brightest planets, stars in February
Check out when our skies will offer the best views of our celestial neighbors.
- The Hill
Crew-6: Here’s a look at the four astronauts flying on NASA’s next mission to the ISS
The countdown for NASA’s next astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is on. Working together with SpaceX, the U.S. space agency is planning to launch its sixth long-duration crew mission as soon as Feb. 26. Strapping inside the Dragon will be one of NASA’s most diverse crews yet: NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and…
- The Conversation
Thawing permafrost is full of ice-forming particles that could get into atmosphere
Permafrost is thawing across the Arctic, releasing microbes and organic materials that have been trapped in the frozen ground for thousands of years. NOAA via Wikimedia CommonsThe Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Permafrost – frozen soil in the far north – is thawing, releasing greenhouse gases and long-lost microbes. But one thing that scientists have not studied extensively is whether permafrost contains certain kinds of particles that could affect c
- Business Insider
From Jeff Bezos to Jack Dorsey, here are 14 the world's wealthiest entrepreneurs trying to crack the code of living forever
Insider rounded up 14 of the world's wealthiest entrepreneurs searching for a solution to the predicament of mortality.
- Benzinga
Bill Gates Has Big Plans for the Future of Healthcare – From an HIV Vaccine to Eradicating Malaria, Here's How the Billionaire Is Reshaping Healthcare
Bill Gates rose to prominence during the internet’s early growth stages and the dot-com boom. His company, Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), became a big player in the tech scene in the early 1980s and launched its initial public offering (IPO) in 1986. Today, the tech giant is worth nearly $2 trillion, and Gates has a net worth of over $104 billion. Microsoft helped Gates hold the title of the world's richest man from 1995 to 2017, with the exception of 2010 to 2013. Gates has mostly retired from
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The Comet Interceptor probe could visit a stunning object like the green C/2022 E3 (ZTF)
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is tantalizing to spot through a telescope, but what would it look like up close?