Science / Space
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An International Space Station Leak Is Getting Worse—and Keeping NASA Up at Night
US space officials do not like to talk about the perils of flying astronauts on the aging International Space Station,…
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The Polaris Dawn Spaceflight Was More Than Just a Billionaire Joyride
A white spacecraft, lightly toasted like a marshmallow and smelling of singed metal, fell out of the night sky early…
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Stephen Hawking Was Wrong—Extremal Black Holes Are Possible
Now two mathematicians have proved Hawking and his colleagues wrong. The new work—contained in a pair of recent papers by Christoph Kehle of the Massachusetts…
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How to View the ‘Comet of the Century’ C/2023 A3
This story originally appeared on WIRED en Español and has been translated from Spanish. C/2023 A3, also known as Tsuchinshan–ATLAS…
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Billionaire Finally Launches on First Private Space-Walk Mission
One of the most ambitious space tourism missions in history has launched, with the all-commercial crew set to hit a…
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Alien Spaceships Could Be Detected Using Gravitational Waves
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. How much do we really know about what…
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The Biggest Controversy in Cosmology Just Got Bigger
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Nearly a century ago, Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe…
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Boeing Starliner Returns Home to an Uncertain Future
Until now, NASA has paid Boeing roughly $2.7 billion of the $4.6 billion total potential value of its commercial crew…
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Moon GPS Is Coming
“You have arrived at your destination.” This phrase, delivered with robotic cadence, is familiar to anyone who uses satellite navigation…
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Strange Noises Are Coming from Inside Boeing’s Starliner Spacecraft
On Saturday NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore noticed some strange noises emanating from a speaker inside the Starliner spacecraft. “I’ve got…
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