Since the Cassini spacecraft discovered plumes of water vapor erupting from geysers on Enceladus nearly 20 years ago, Saturn’s ice-covered ocean moon has been a hot topic. The James Webb Space Telescope has now...
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NASA Had a Plan For Rescuing Space Shuttle Astronauts Using a Big Fabric Ball : ScienceAlert
For most of us, this would be a nightmare. Imagine being curled up inside a 90 centimeter (36 inch) fabric sphere with a small window and a small air tank while dangling from the...
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Nearby Civilizations Could Intercept Our Transmissions to Space Probes This Century : ScienceAlert
In a recent study submitted to the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, a pair of researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of California, Berkeley (UC...
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Radical Idea Could Make Future Space Mission 100 Times More Powerful : ScienceAlert
The first-time detection of gravitational waves (GW) by researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) in 2015 triggered a revolution in astronomy. This phenomenon consists of ripples in spacetime caused by the merger...
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Mysterious Shadow Pattern in Space Reveals an Off-Kilter Surprise : ScienceAlert
Shadows flickering across the dust roiling around a newborn star have revealed a rare glimpse of how the Solar System may have formed billions of years ago. Changing light around a star named TW...
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Aerospace Company Airbus Designs New Space Station With Artificial Gravity : ScienceAlert
The International Space Station (ISS) is nearing the end of its service. While NASA and its partners have committed to keeping it in operation until 2030, plans are already in place for successor space...
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NASA Hacks Voyager 2 to Keep The 45-Year-Old Probe Studying Interstellar Space : ScienceAlert
Voyager 2’s demise has been postponed after NASA found a way to hack a backup source of power to keep the probe going until 2026. Voyager 1 and 2 have provided crucial scientific information...
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Mysterious Radio Signals in Space Keep Repeating
Like gravitational waves (GWs) and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the most powerful and mysterious astronomical phenomena today. These transient events consist of bursts that put out more energy...
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Scientists Just Used The Most Powerful Space Telescope Ever Built to Look at Uranus : ScienceAlert
We’ve just been given a spectacular new perspective on what is possibly the oddest ball in the Solar System. The James Webb Space Telescope has turned its golden, infrared gaze on the enigmatic seventh...
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Astronomers May Have Detected a Hypothetical ‘Strange Star’ in Space : ScienceAlert
With a mass of around three-quarters of our Sun crammed into a ball that could sit comfortably inside Manhattan, the compact object XMMU J173203.3-344518 is certainly remarkable. Weird, even. Maybe bizarre. But is it...
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