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Early in the 11th century, a young Benedictine monk named Eilmer jumped from the 150-foot tower of his…
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Mercury reaches greatest elongation on June 15, placing the elusive planet at its farthest apparent distance from the…
A Strange Moon Orbiting Neptune May Be The Sole Survivor of an Apocalypse : ScienceAlert
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Venus’ Strange Rotation Was Likely Triggered By A High Velocity Moon-Sized Impactor
Venus’ bizarre and extraordinarily slow retrograde rotation on its axis has long puzzled planetary scientists. But in a…
‘We were astonished’: Millions of exoplanets could be born near active supermassive black holes
A team of scientists is astounded to have discovered that bright and turbulent regions of galaxies — called…
Early SpaceX Employee: Equity Helped Pay Off Student Loans, Buy Home
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Elon Musk drifted from Larry Page, but SpaceX, Google closer than ever
SpaceX founder Elon Musk jumps for joy at a gathering after NASA commercial crew astronauts Doug Hurley and…
Artemis II crew captures rare double auroras on the dark side of Earth as they zoom toward the moon — Space photo of the week
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US MARKET CALL: Roaring 2020s Rockets To Mars & Beyond
“Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new…
The Apollo astronauts who carried lunar dust back into the cabin kept making the same strange report — fresh Moon dust smelled like spent gunpowder — yet the smell never survived the trip home, and more than fifty years later no one has fully explained what they were breathing in up there.
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MIT’s New Dual-Mode Rocket System Could Send Tiny Satellites to Mars
These four flight unit electrospray thrusters were delivered by MIT Space Propulsion Laboratory to NASA for the upcoming…
How Elon Musk Just Became The World's First Trillionaire – Forbes
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