SpaceX Starship explodes again, this time on the ground

On Wednesday, June 18 at approximately 11 p.m. CT, the Starship preparing for the tenth flight test experienced a major ...
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The Mysterious Inner Workings of Io, Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon

Crucially, unlike Io’s odd magnetic field, which seemed to indicate that it concealed an ocean’s worth of fluid, Europa’s own ...
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A New Law of Nature Attempts to Explain the Complexity of the Universe

Kauffman argues that biological evolution is thus constantly creating not just new types of organisms but new possibilities for organisms, ...
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A new atomic clock in space could help us measure elevations on Earth

To prevent such costly construction errors, in 2015 scientists in the International Association of Geodesy voted to adopt the International ...
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New Bacteria Have Been Discovered on a Chinese Space Station
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It is microscopic and rod-shaped, can create spores, and may have evolved to survive hundreds of miles above our planet’s ...
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The pursuit of better drugs through orbital space crystals

In The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton wrote about killer alien space crystals that are (spoiler alert) ultimately stymied by Earth’s ...
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SpaceX Tests Starship Fixes After Back-to-Back Failures

SpaceX founder Elon Musk also wants Starship to fly to Mars, which will, likewise, require a mastery of in-space refueling. ...
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It’s Looking More Likely NASA Will Fly the Artemis II Mission

Late Saturday night, technicians at Kennedy Space Center in Florida moved the core stage for NASA’s second Space Launch System ...
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Evidence Grows That Dark Energy Changes Over Time

That’s what DESI was designed to do: take precise measurements of the apparent size of these bubbles (both near and ...
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Space science is under threat from the anti-DEI purge

The space science community has long prided itself on its ability to inspire and move people of all backgrounds, but ...
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