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Miss England 'flies' Boeing Starliner spaceship at NASA's Kennedy Space Center

Jessica Gagan, Miss England 2023, toured Boeing facilities at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and flew their Starliner simulator. The aerospace engineer is promoting STEM education during her U.S. tour.

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Returning astronauts to the moon is NASA's biggest challenge, but not its only one: report

NASA's Office of the Inspector General 2023 annual report highlights 7 major challenges, including the return of humans to the moon and the retirement of the International Space Station.

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See Jupiter shine bright during the Taurid meteor shower tonight

Jupiter will be opposite the sun as seen from Earth on Friday (Nov. 3), shining brightly throughout the night as the Northern and Southern Taurid meteor showers approach their peaks.

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Relics of huge primordial collision reside in Earth's deep interior

Seismologists have recognised since the 1970s that two mysterious continent-sized blobs reside in the deepest part of Earth’s mantle, one under Africa and the other under the South Pacific region

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SpaceX, NASA delay CRS-29 cargo launch again, to Nov. 9

SpaceX and NASA have delayed the next Dragon cargo launch to the International Space Station by two additional days, to Nov. 9.

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Astronaut Ken Mattingly, who launched to the moon on Apollo 16, dies at 87

For the record, Ken Mattingly never did get the German measles. The former NASA astronaut, who in 1970 was pulled from the Apollo 13 crew, died on Tuesday (Oct. 31) at the age of 87.

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Surprise! Asteroid 'Dinky' is actually a double space rock, NASA's Lucy probe reveals (photo)

NASA's Lucy spacecraft just flew by its first asteroid — and discovered that the space rock has a companion.

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NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Found Something Unexpected During Its Flyby

The team behind NASA's asteroid-tracking Lucy mission got a special treat this week.

Inverse

Swirling gas helps scientists nail down Milky Way's supermassive black hole mass

An independent mass measurement of Sagittarius A* suggests we have been right all along about how utterly massive this black hole is.

Space

Supermassive Black Holes Posses A Strange Mechanism That Prevents Overeating

A supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy violently shoves away 97 percent of nearby matter, disrupting star formation in the process.

Inverse

China's Shenzhou 16 astronauts apparently landed with a ripped parachute (photo)

China's Shenzhou 16 astronauts landed safely on Earth this week despite an apparent hole appearing in their return capsule's parachute.

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The James Webb Space Telescope's tech breakthroughs are already impacting science. Here's how

The JWST demanded software improvements that will help future telescopes and spacecraft.

Space

Intuitive Machines private moon lander launch set for January 2024

Intuitive Machines' lunar landing mission is again delayed two months to January 2024, but its Nova-C moon lander is ready to go.

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Watch China launch pair of Earth-mapping satellites on its 50th launch of 2023 (video)

A Long March 6A rocket lifted off carrying two Tianhui-5 Earth-mapping satellites on Nov. 1, marking China's 50th launch of the year.

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Virgin Galactic launches researchers to suborbital space on 5th commercial flight (video)

Virgin Galactic's reusable space plane VSS Unity aced its fifth commercial mission today (Nov. 2), continuing the one-flight-per-month tempo the company began this spring.

Inverse

Uranus Will Be Bright in the Sky This Month — Here’s How to See It

Jupiter will be there too, but that ruins the joke.

Inverse

Hot Jupiters Orbit Young Stars Because Old Ones Already Ate Them

A common type of planet (that our Solar System is surprisingly lacking), hot Jupiters don’t last long in their close-in orbits.

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Billionaire Investor Ron Baron Sees SpaceX Overtaking Tesla By 2030s

Baron predicts SpaceX's rocket reusability will drive its valuation to $500-600B, making it bigger than Tesla.

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See the world's largest telescope dwarfed by the Full Hunter's Moon (photo)

The steel skeleton of the world's largest visible- and infrared-light telescope is illuminated by the rising full moon in a gorgeous new photo from the European Southern Observatory.

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Many of the Universe's Remaining Mysteries Exist In This Icy, Doughnut-Shaped Region

Kuiper Belt objects are some of the last remaining unexplored objects in the universe. Finding them has proved incredibly difficult.

Inverse

NASA's Juno Spots Ingredients for Life on Jupiter’s Largest Moon

The seawater residue found on Ganymede contain types of salt and possibly organic compounds called aldehydes, a precursor to the building blocks of life.

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Bullying Jupiter-like planets may push 'alien Earths' away from life-friendly orbits

Planets like Earth shouldn't get too close to their bigger, bullying neighbors. Jupiter-size worlds can wreck life-friendly conditions on their smaller neighbors.

Zenger

Planet’s Remains Buried In Earth’s Interior, Shaping Its Geography, Study Shows

Remnants of ancient planet that formed Moon found buried deep inside Earth, reveals new study.

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NASA's Lucy spacecraft successfully completes 1st flyby of asteroid 'Dinky'

NASA's Lucy mission is set to visit several asteroids over 12 years, and the probe just successfully flew by target number one.

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Virgin Galactic set to launch Galactic 05 mission with research duo today (Nov. 2)

A pair of well-known scientists are flying on Virgin Galactic's fifth commercial mission, Galactic 05. The company's VSS Unity spaceplane and VMS Eve carrier aircraft are set to take off Thursday morning (Nov. 2).

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