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SpaceX Launches Astronauts for a Long-Awaited ISS Crew Swap

SpaceX successfully launched four astronauts on Friday, kicking off the Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Their arrival will provide enough personnel to allow Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore to return to Earth after a nine-month stay. The Dragon spacecraft is set to dock with the ISS late Saturday, with the new crew

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SpaceX Starship Loses Control During Second Consecutive Test Flight Failure

During a test flight on Thursday, SpaceX’s Starship lost control while in space, marking its second consecutive failed attempt to reach orbit. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) briefly grounded flights at major Florida airports and rerouted others due to concerns about potential “space launch debris.” The agency informed TechCrunch that SpaceX must conduct a mishap

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Sunken Continents Could Unbalance Earth’s Magnetic Field

Structures the size of continents, protruding from the lower mantle towards Earth’s outer core, may be contributing to an instability in our planet’s magnetic field. Initial Assumptions About Similarity These two formations, one beneath the Pacific and the other under Africa, have similar characteristics in terms of seismic waves, leading scientists to initially believe they

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Risk of 2032 Asteroid Impact Reduced: Key Details You Should Know

Asteroid 2024 YR4 recently made headlines after NASA estimated a 1-in-32 chance of impact in 2032—the highest probability ever recorded for a hazardous-sized asteroid. Fortunately, new observations have since cut that risk in half. Discovered in late December, the asteroid passed Earth at roughly twice the Moon’s distance. Based on observations, its size is estimated

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Moon Rock or Asteroid? NASA Tracks 2024 PT5’s Earth Flyby

First detected on August 7, 2024, by the University of Hawaiʻi’s ATLAS telescope in Sutherland, South Africa, asteroid 2024 PT5 has intrigued astronomers with its Earth-like orbit around the Sun. This small asteroid, approximately 33 feet (10 meters) in diameter, poses no threat to our planet. Orbiting the Sun in a path similar to Earth’s,

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Astronomers Find Unusual Slow-Spinning Radio Source That ‘Shouldn’t Exist’

At the end of their lifecycles, some of the largest stars explode in massive supernovas, leaving behind dense cores called neutron stars. These remnants can emit strong radio waves from their magnetic poles. As these stars rotate, their radio beams sweep across Earth, creating periodic pulses much like a cosmic lighthouse. These stars are known

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NASA Confirms Parker Probe Survived Historic Sun Encounter

The Parker Solar Probe has been confirmed by NASA to be safe and fully functional following a groundbreaking close approach to the Sun on December 24, 2024. During this event, the spacecraft set a record, venturing to within just 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the Sun’s surface. Venus Flybys and Unprecedented Speed Launched

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Astrophysicists Capture Gamma-Ray Flare Visuals from M87’s Supermassive Black Hole

In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) unveiled the first image of a black hole, showcasing the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M87. Now, this cosmic giant is surprising scientists with an intense teraelectronvolt gamma-ray flare, the strongest observed in over a decade. Emitting photons billions of times more energetic than visible

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