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China's Zhuque-3 Reaches Orbit but Booster Explodes in Failed Landing Attempt
China’s private launch company, LandSpace, successfully sent its Zhuque-3 rocket to low Earth orbit on its maiden flight, delivering its payload with an expendable upper stage. But the mission took a dramatic turn during recovery when one of the booster’s engines stalled in the landing burn, causing the stage to erupt in flames just meters from...
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InSight Mission Uncovers Chaotic Structure Locked Inside Mars’ Interior
NASA’s InSight mission uncovered Mars’ mantle as chaotic and fractured, resembling a Rocky Road brownie rather than a layered planet. Seismic data revealed ancient fragments, some over 4 km wide, preserved by a rigid crust for more than four billion years. The findings offer fresh insights into Mars’ explosive past and the evolution of rocky ...
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SpaceX's Rocket Explosion Raises Safety Concerns Ahead Of Axiom-4 Mission
Elon Musk's commercial space flight company SpaceX suffered a major setback after its latest reusable rocket that was under development, the massive Starship, exploded on the launch pad, causing a huge fireball.
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Supernova Remnants Found in Oceanic Samples, Scientists Look to Moon
Scientists have identified supernova debris in deep-sea sediments, including a rare plutonium isotope linked to a kilonova. Researchers believe a neutron star collision occurred nearly 10 million years ago, scattering radioactive material across space. To validate this theory, they plan to analyze lunar soil, which remains undisturbed by Earth's ge...
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe Unveils New Insights into Solar Heating Mystery
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has delivered groundbreaking insights into one of the sun's most perplexing mysteries: why its outer atmosphere, or corona, is significantly hotter than its surface. This phenomenon, known as the "coronal heating mystery," has puzzled scientists for decades. The Parker Solar Probe, which is the fastest human-made object, h...
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NASA's First Set of Small Satellites for SunRISE Mission Ready to Detect, Track Hazardous Space Weather Events
The first of the small satellites to be used in NASA's SunRISE, or Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment, have been completed at Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL). The SDL has been contracted by the American space agency to build, test, and commission all six satellites for the mission to detect and track hazardous explosiv...
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Apollo 13's Most Famous Quotes Originated in Hollywood
Apollo 13′s best-known quotes originated not in space or Mission Control, but in Hollywood.
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SpaceX Astronaut Mission Looking 'Increasingly Difficult' in 2019, Executive Says
As Elon Musk's SpaceX closes in on the possible cause of a fiery explosion in April that destroyed one of its astronaut capsules, a company executive said its plan to launch humans into space this year looked "increasingly difficult."
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Japan Probe Blasts Asteroid, Seeking Clues to Life's Origins
The explosive mission is the riskiest yet attempted by the Japanese space agency's Hayabusa2 probe.
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SpaceX To Launch Rocket Dec 19, Six Months After Blast
SpaceX on Thursday announced plans to launch its Falcon 9 on December 19, its first mission since a massive explosion after liftoff destroyed the rocket and its space station cargo six months ago.
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China's Zhuque-3 Reaches Orbit but Booster Explodes in Failed Landing Attempt
China’s private launch company, LandSpace, successfully sent its Zhuque-3 rocket to low Earth orbit on its maiden flight, delivering its payload with an expendable upper stage. But the mission took a dramatic turn during recovery when one of the booster’s engines stalled in the landing burn, causing the stage to erupt in flames just meters from...
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InSight Mission Uncovers Chaotic Structure Locked Inside Mars’ Interior
NASA’s InSight mission uncovered Mars’ mantle as chaotic and fractured, resembling a Rocky Road brownie rather than a layered planet. Seismic data revealed ancient fragments, some over 4 km wide, preserved by a rigid crust for more than four billion years. The findings offer fresh insights into Mars’ explosive past and the evolution of rocky ...
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SpaceX's Rocket Explosion Raises Safety Concerns Ahead Of Axiom-4 Mission
Elon Musk's commercial space flight company SpaceX suffered a major setback after its latest reusable rocket that was under development, the massive Starship, exploded on the launch pad, causing a huge fireball.
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Supernova Remnants Found in Oceanic Samples, Scientists Look to Moon
Scientists have identified supernova debris in deep-sea sediments, including a rare plutonium isotope linked to a kilonova. Researchers believe a neutron star collision occurred nearly 10 million years ago, scattering radioactive material across space. To validate this theory, they plan to analyze lunar soil, which remains undisturbed by Earth's ge...
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe Unveils New Insights into Solar Heating Mystery
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has delivered groundbreaking insights into one of the sun's most perplexing mysteries: why its outer atmosphere, or corona, is significantly hotter than its surface. This phenomenon, known as the "coronal heating mystery," has puzzled scientists for decades. The Parker Solar Probe, which is the fastest human-made object, h...
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NASA's First Set of Small Satellites for SunRISE Mission Ready to Detect, Track Hazardous Space Weather Events
The first of the small satellites to be used in NASA's SunRISE, or Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment, have been completed at Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL). The SDL has been contracted by the American space agency to build, test, and commission all six satellites for the mission to detect and track hazardous explosiv...
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Apollo 13's Most Famous Quotes Originated in Hollywood
Apollo 13′s best-known quotes originated not in space or Mission Control, but in Hollywood.
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SpaceX Astronaut Mission Looking 'Increasingly Difficult' in 2019, Executive Says
As Elon Musk's SpaceX closes in on the possible cause of a fiery explosion in April that destroyed one of its astronaut capsules, a company executive said its plan to launch humans into space this year looked "increasingly difficult."
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Japan Probe Blasts Asteroid, Seeking Clues to Life's Origins
The explosive mission is the riskiest yet attempted by the Japanese space agency's Hayabusa2 probe.
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SpaceX To Launch Rocket Dec 19, Six Months After Blast
SpaceX on Thursday announced plans to launch its Falcon 9 on December 19, its first mission since a massive explosion after liftoff destroyed the rocket and its space station cargo six months ago.
