All posts tagged "Space"
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18ScienceEclipses, meteor showers and more: The must-see skywatching events of 2025
Another year of skywatching is upon us, and there’s a lot to look forward to in 2025! Here’s a rundown of some...
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Auroras, solar eclipse, Starship – 3 space stories make Google’s Breakout Searches of 2024 (video)
Google — Year in Search 2024 – YouTube Watch On Need ideas for what to wear to a holiday party this season?...
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What is Elon Musk’s Starship space vehicle?
Getty Images Elon Musk wants his new rocket to revolutionise spaceflight. And that rocket, Starship, is now the largest and most powerful...
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NASA’s Orion crew capsule had heat shield issues during Artemis 1 − an aerospace expert weighs in (op-ed)
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Marcos Fernandexz...
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Best sci-fi TV shows of 2024
When it comes to sci-fi TV shows, 2024 had a lot to offer. Every entry, bar one, premiered with their first season...
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‘Star Bound’ serves up a ‘snarky approach to space history’ and the American space program (exclusive)
Noted author, poet, and NASA historian Bruce McCandless III (“Wonders All Around”) grew up in close proximity to the thundering roar of...
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‘Galaxy Quest’ at 25: the ‘Star Trek’ spoof that has its cake and eats it
By the time “Star Trek” entered its fourth decade in the late ’90s, it had long been a target for comedians looking...
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‘Silo’ Season 2 Episode 7: Juliette takes a plunge and Lukas views the vault of human history
While it was nice to mostly stay put in Silo 18 last week and watch Knox and Shirley storm up the staircase...
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SpaceX launches 4 Astranis satellites on 2nd try after last-second abort
SpaceX successfully launched a miniature fleet of communications satellites into orbit in the wee overnight hours in a vindication of sorts after...
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Was 2024 the year we finally started to understand dark energy?
2024 was a big year for space science in many ways, but it may well prove to be the most important year...
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Rocket launch today: Is there a rocket launch and what time?
Refresh 2024-12-30T17:22:43.037Z Dec. 31: SpaceX’s last Starlink launch of 2024 (Image credit: SpaceX) The next rocket launch we’re tracking will be SpaceX’s...
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3… 2… 1… SpaceX launches Starlink satellites on third-to-last mission of 2024
SpaceX has begun counting down to the New Year, with the launch of the first of three rockets planned to close out...
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20ScienceLandmark space mission set to create artificial solar eclipses using satellites | Solar eclipses
Final preparations have begun for a landmark space mission that will use satellites flying in close formation to create artificial solar eclipses...
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15 must-see naked-eye skywatching events in 2025
In 2025, skywatchers can look forward to a series of stunning celestial events, including a bright Mars occulted by the Wolf Moon,...
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26ScienceCan goats predict earthquakes? Can dogs forecast volcanic eruptions? These scientists think so | Animal behaviour
Scientists are enlisting some unusual recruits in their efforts to forecast earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other natural phenomena. They are enrolling thousands...
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Will 2025 be the year of Starship? SpaceX’s megarocket is growing up.
SpaceX’s Starship megarocket may come into its own in 2025. The 400-foot-tall (122 meters) Starship is the biggest and most powerful rocket...
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42ScienceStarwatch: crescent moon and Venus make a beautiful pairing | The moon
No matter how many times you may have seen it, the crescent moon and the planet Venus make a beautiful pairing. This...
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Who are the Covenant? The enemy alien alliance explained
Whether you’re following Master Chief and the United Nations Space Command (UNSC)’s fight against the Covenant by watching the Halo TV series...
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A Cold War mystery: Why did Jimmy Carter save the space shuttle?
On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the first human landing on the Moon, Apollo 11 crew members, Buzz Aldrin, left,...
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31ScienceAtmospheric analysis shows Venus never had Earth-like life, scientists say | Venus
With a surface hot enough to melt lead and with clouds of sulphuric acid above it, it is a planet often called...
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Watch Greenland lose 563 cubic miles of ice in under 30 seconds in disturbing new time-lapse video
A disturbing new video shows 13 years of melt at the Greenland Ice Sheet. The video was stitched together based on NASA...
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Why did the UK’s oldest space satellite end up thousands of miles from where it should have been?
BBC/Gerry Fletcher Artwork: The half-tonne Skynet-1A satellite was launched in November 1969 Someone moved the UK’s oldest satellite and there appears to...
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