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A colossal explosion in the sky, unleashing energy hundreds of times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. A blinding flash nearly as bright as the sun. Shockwaves powerful enough to flatten everything for miles. It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one
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Starliner astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore took a stroll outside the International Space Station on Thursday, marking their 239th day in orbit by carrying out a task originally planned for a spacewalk last summer. In the process, Williams became the world’s most experienced female spacewalker, logging more than 62 hours outside the lab
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Sample returned from asteroid Bennu contained life’s building blocks, scientists say – CBS News Watch CBS News Samples of rock and dirt which were returned to Earth in 2023 from the asteroid Bennu have been analyzed and found to contain some of the key building blocks of life, including ammino acids, scientists said Wednesday. View
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President Trump blamed the Biden administration Tuesday for “abandoning” two astronauts who have been stuck aboard the International Space Station in the wake of problems last summer with their Boeing Starliner capsule. In a post to his Truth Social platform, the president said he has asked SpaceX founder Elon Musk to “go get” the two
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Get ready for a parade of planets this winter. During the month of January, sky gazers will be able to see four planets in one view — and come February, the parade will only expand. NASA says after dark, throughout the month of January, you’ll be able to see Venus, Saturn Jupiter and Mars. Venus
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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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