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Astronomers discovered supersonic winds on a giant gas planet located over 500 light-years from Earth. In a study released Tuesday in Astronomy & Astrophysics astronomers who have been studying weather on the planet since 2016 said findings show this “is the fastest wind ever measured in a jetstream that goes around a planet.” “This is
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The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered SpaceX to carry out a formal investigation into the breakup of its Starship rocket during a test flight Thursday that sent a spectacular shower of flaming debris plummeting back to Earth, the agency announced Friday. “The FAA is requiring SpaceX to perform a mishap investigation into the loss of
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SpaceX launched its huge Super Heavy-Starship mega rocket on its seventh test flight Thursday, successfully “catching” the first stage booster back at its firing stand but losing its new-generation Starship upper stage spacecraft, which apparently broke up as it was reaching space. Falling debris from the destroyed Starship briefly delayed airline traffic out of Miami,
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Shrugging off bad weather, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launched its powerful New Glenn rocket on its maiden flight early Thursday, lighting up a cloudy overnight sky as it climbed away from Cape Canaveral in a high-stakes bid to compete with Elon Musk’s industry-leading SpaceX. Like SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9, the New Glenn’s first stage was
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With the nearly full moon shining overhead, two companies, one American and the other headquartered in Japan, launched privately-developed robotic lunar landers early Wednesday, sharing a sky-lighting ride to space atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The U.S. lander, built by Austin, Texas-based Firefly Aerospace and known as “Blue Ghost,” is carrying 10 sophisticated instruments
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Blue Origin to launch New Glenn rocket Blue Origin to launch New Glenn rocket after 10 years of development 05:07 Cape Canaveral, Fla. — Blue Origin called off the debut launch of its massive new rocket early Monday because of technical trouble. The 320-foot New Glenn rocket was supposed to blast off before dawn with
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin readied the company’s powerful New Glenn rocket for its delayed but long-awaited maiden flight early Monday, kicking off a high-stakes bid to compete head-to-head with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and its industry dominating Falcon family of rockets. While more than one successful test flight will be needed to demonstrate the reliability needed
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After an independent review concluded NASA’s plans to robotically collect and return rock and soil samples from Mars could cost up to $11 billion, NASA “pulled the plug” and is focusing on two options to reduce costs and speed up the return of the samples, agency Administrator Bill Nelson said Tuesday. Option one would use
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NASA’s powerful Webb Telescope has spotted more than 40 ancient stars in a distant galaxy, researchers said in a new study. The study, published Monday in Nature, said the researchers used a technique called gravitational lensing to identify the stars. The phenomenon occurs when light bends around a large celestial body, making objects in space
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NASA probe sets record NASA probe sets record as closest object to the sun 02:22 NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has beamed home its first detailed update eight days after making a record-breaking approach to the sun, the agency announced. The spacecraft confirmed its systems and instruments are “healthy and operating normally,” NASA said in an
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