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New York Times best-selling author revisits 1986 space shuttle tragedy in 'Challenger' (interview)

Tue, 05/14/2024 - 1:00pm
Adam Higginbotham was out with his first book when he got the idea. "People often asked me whether I remembered where I was when I heard the news about Chernobyl." He didn't, but recalled Challenger.
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Helium leak delays Boeing's 1st Starliner astronaut launch to May 21

Tue, 05/14/2024 - 12:59pm
The first crewed mission of Boeing's Starliner capsule has been pushed back by four days to May 21, due to a helium leak in its service module.
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Giant 'rogue waves' of invisible matter might be disrupting the orbits of stars, new study hints

Tue, 05/14/2024 - 12:00pm
New research shows how disruptions to binary star systems could be the key to detecting space's most confounding substance — dark matter.
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The summer of 2023 was Earth's hottest in 2,000 years, scientists find

Tue, 05/14/2024 - 11:00am
Using tree ring data, scientists have confirmed that summer 2023 was the hottest summer on Earth in the last 2,000 years.
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SpaceX launches 20 Starlink satellites on 50th mission of the year (video)

Tue, 05/14/2024 - 10:00am
SpaceX launched 20 of its Starlink internet satellites today (May 14), on the company's 50th orbital mission of 2024.
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New book 'Challenger: A True Story of Heroism & Disaster on the Edge of Space' out today

Tue, 05/14/2024 - 9:00am
Adam Higginbotham's new book "Challenger: A True Story of Heroism & Disaster on the Edge of Space" explores the fateful internal NASA decisions that partly led to Challenger's sudden destruction upon liftoff.
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This time, we take it from no one: Why opening the High Frontier of space can be different (op-ed)

Tue, 05/14/2024 - 6:00am
The coming settlement of the High Frontier doesn’t have to be a repeat of the violent conquests and colonization of history. We will not take space from anyone, and we can give it to everyone.
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'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' reinvigorates an aging 'Apes' franchise (review)

Mon, 05/13/2024 - 6:13pm
"Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes" is a triumph of solid storytelling, cutting-edge motion capture work by the actors and a multi-layered score.
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SpaceX Starship's next launch 'probably 3 to 5 weeks' away, Elon Musk says

Mon, 05/13/2024 - 6:00pm
SpaceX's Starship megarocket will likely conduct its fourth-ever test flight in the next month or so, according to Elon Musk.
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AI may be to blame for our failure to make contact with alien civilizations

Mon, 05/13/2024 - 5:00pm
The rise of AI might explain why the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has yet to detect the signatures of advanced technical civilizations elsewhere in the galaxy.
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Space Force aims to launch 1st 'Foo Fighter' satellites in 2027 to track hypersonic threats

Mon, 05/13/2024 - 4:12pm
The U.S. Space Force's Space Development Agency has ordered the first eight satellites for its upcoming 'FOO Fighter' hypersonic missile-tracking constellation.
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NASA appoints 1st AI chief to keep agency on 'the cutting edge'

Mon, 05/13/2024 - 3:00pm
NASA has appointed its first-ever chief artificial intelligence officer, a move designed to ensure that the agency keeps up with the vital and rapidly evolving tech.
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SpaceX Starlink satellites doing just fine after weekend solar storm, company says

Mon, 05/13/2024 - 1:15pm
SpaceX's Starlink fleet of nearly 6,000 satellites remains healthy after weekend solar storms sparked auroras across the world.
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'A Quiet Place: Day One' trailer reveals why Earth went silent after alien invasion (video)

Mon, 05/13/2024 - 12:33pm
Watch the new trailer for Paramount Pictures' terrifying alien invasion horror film, "A Quiet Place: Day One."
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Lego rolls out details about Apollo lunar rover model coming in August

Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:00am
Lego is gearing up to deliver a detailed model of the original "rock and rolling ride," the electric buggy driven by NASA's last three Apollo crews to explore the moon.
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New algorithm slashes time to run most sophisticated climate models by 10-fold

Mon, 05/13/2024 - 9:00am
Climate models can be a million lines of code long and can take months to run on supercomputers. A new algorithm has dramatically shortened that time.
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Stunning image shows atoms transforming into quantum waves — just as Schrödinger predicted

Mon, 05/13/2024 - 8:00am
A new imaging technique, which captured frozen lithium atoms transforming into quantum waves, could be used to probe some of the most poorly understood aspects of the quantum world.
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The surface of this volcanic exoplanet is hotter than some stars

Mon, 05/13/2024 - 8:00am
Described as being like "Io on steroids," a newly discovered exoplanet is the victim of a tug of war between its neighboring planets and its star.
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How a giant sunspot unleashed solar storms that spawned global auroras that just dazzled us all

Mon, 05/13/2024 - 6:00am
Intense solar activity generated the most extreme geomagnetic storm since 2003 on Friday (May 10), and the action could continue into this week. Here's how it happened.
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SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites from Florida (video)

Sun, 05/12/2024 - 2:00pm
SpaceX launched 23 of its Starlink satellites from Florida on Sunday (May 12), adding to its huge and ever-growing broadband megaconstellation.
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