Spacecraft With Precious Asteroid Cargo Is Almost Home After 5-Billion Km Trek
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Spacecraft With Precious Asteroid Cargo Is Almost Home After 5-Billion Km Trek
In the dusty desert town of Woomera, in the South Australian desert, scientists are getting ready. On 6 December 2020, after six years in space, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa2 spacecraft will finally return to Earth.
China Launches 'Audacious' Mission to Obtain First New Lunar Samples in Decades
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China Launches 'Audacious' Mission to Obtain First New Lunar Samples in Decades
For decades, planetary geologists have studied tiny chunks of lunar rock to unravel the Moon's mysteries. The rocks have revealed how old the Moon is, helped scientists estimate the age of other planets, and offered insight into how turbulent our
We're About to Witness a Super-Rare Planetary Alignment Not Seen in 800 Years
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We're About to Witness a Super-Rare Planetary Alignment Not Seen in 800 Years
Star-gazers are in for a treat over Christmas, as Jupiter and Saturn will get closer to each other in Earth's night sky than they have been for nearly 800 years. Set up your telescope, hope for a clear night, and get ready.
Strange, Newly Found Magnetar Signals May Force Us to Rethink Fast Radio Bursts
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Strange, Newly Found Magnetar Signals May Force Us to Rethink Fast Radio Bursts
An extremely magnetised star 16,700 light-years away could be the next clue in solving the mystery of fast radio bursts.
Artificial Intelligence Is Now Smart Enough to Know When It Can't Be Trusted
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Artificial Intelligence Is Now Smart Enough to Know When It Can't Be Trusted
How might The Terminator have played out if Skynet had decided it probably wasn't responsible enough to hold the keys to the entire US nuclear arsenal? As it turns out, scientists may just have saved us from such a future AI-led apocalypse, by crea
Scientists Detect Hints of Strange New Physics in The Universe's Background Radiation
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Scientists Detect Hints of Strange New Physics in The Universe's Background Radiation
Throughout all known space, between the stars and the galaxies, an extremely faint glow suffuses, a relic left over from the dawn of the Universe. This is the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the first light that could travel through the Univers
New Evidence Suggests COVID-19 Immunity Can Last 6 to 8 Months After Infection
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New Evidence Suggests COVID-19 Immunity Can Last 6 to 8 Months After Infection
We now have the best answer yet to a crucial, lingering question about COVID-19: how long immunity lasts.
DeepMind's AI biologist can decipher secrets of the machinery of life
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DeepMind's AI biologist can decipher secrets of the machinery of life
AI firm DeepMind's latest creation, AlphaFold, can predict the shape of proteins from their sequence alone. This fiendish problem normally requires time-consuming experiments, but is key to understanding the machinery of life
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China's Lunar Mission Just Landed on The Moon And Is Ready to Bring Back Some Rocks
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China's Lunar Mission Just Landed on The Moon And Is Ready to Bring Back Some Rocks
China has landed an ambitious rock-collecting mission on the Moon.
Scientists Invent a Microscope That Can Safely Look Straight Through Your Skull
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Scientists Invent a Microscope That Can Safely Look Straight Through Your Skull
Seeing what the heck is going on inside of us is useful for many aspects of modern medicine. But how to do this without slicing and dicing through barriers like flesh and bone to observe living intact tissues, like our brains, is a tricky thing to
It's Official: Japan's Space Agency Has Recovered Asteroid Samples From Hayabusa2
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It's Official: Japan's Space Agency Has Recovered Asteroid Samples From Hayabusa2
Japan space agency officials on Sunday hailed the arrival of rare asteroid samples on Earth after they were collected by space probe Hayabusa2 during an unprecedented mission.
Voyager Mission Finds a New Type of Electron Burst at The Edge of Our Solar System
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Voyager Mission Finds a New Type of Electron Burst at The Edge of Our Solar System
The Voyager probes left our Solar System years ago, yet even as they travel through interstellar space, they are still detecting bursts of cosmic rays from our Sun, more than 23 billion kilometres (14 billion miles) away.
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SpaceX's Starship, SN8, has finally attempted its 12.5km test flight
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The rocket successfully launched, ascended, 'belly-flopped', descended and maneuvered for landing before rapidly disassembling (exploding) on the landing pad. Even though it did not stick the landing, the test itself was deemed a huge success and we look forward to upcoming flights of future Starships.
Elon Musk on Twitter:
"Successful ascent, switchover to header tanks & precise flap control to landing point!"
"Fuel header tank pressure was low during landing burn, causing touchdown velocity to be high & RUD, but we got all the data we needed! Congrats SpaceX team hell yeah!!"
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The rocket successfully launched, ascended, 'belly-flopped', descended and maneuvered for landing before rapidly disassembling (exploding) on the landing pad. Even though it did not stick the landing, the test itself was deemed a huge success and we look forward to upcoming flights of future Starships.
Elon Musk on Twitter:
"Successful ascent, switchover to header tanks & precise flap control to landing point!"
"Fuel header tank pressure was low during landing burn, causing touchdown velocity to be high & RUD, but we got all the data we needed! Congrats SpaceX team hell yeah!!"
Full flight can be found in the comments
For more SpaceX related content join @SpaceX and our SpaceX chat
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