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NASA's X-59 "Quiet" Supersonic Jet Begins Taxi Tests

NASA, the American space agency, recently hit the runway with its long awaited rather revolutionary X-59 for its first Taxi test at California Plant 42.  Quite temptingly, with this taxi...

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Telescope spies rare interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS zooming through our solar system

The appearance of 3I/ATLAS is not merely an astronomical curiosity; it's a human reminder of just how tiny we truly are in the universe. This ancient, older than our solar...

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SpaceX sends two batches of Starlink satellites on Saturday

SpaceX has somewhat turned space into a factory operation. Adding 53 satellites in one day is more than impressive. It's what you can call an industrial scale manufacturing that’s happening...

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Scientists may have picked up a dark matter signal

Dark matter remains one of the most mysterious elements of the universe, because it's completely invisible to us. It neither emits nor absorbs light, so we can't observe it directly....

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NASA 3D prints the first ever object in space

The folks over at NASA are certainly knee deep in research and development as well, and they have been working on the possibility of 3D printed food before. Well, it...

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China completes its first unmanned return trip from the moon

China on Saturday successfully recovered an experimental spacecraft that flew around the moon and back in a test run for the country's first unmanned return trip to the lunar surface....

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The ESA has chosen five potential sites for its historic comet landing

Now that the Rosetta spacecraft is orbiting its target comet, the European Space Agency is finalizing the plans for the ship's Philae lander ahead of a historic touchdown on November...

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NASA's next Mars rover will be able to generate oxygen

NASA's next Mars rover will carry seven instruments, including one that will be able to make oxygen on Mars. "The 2020 rover will help answer questions about the Martian environment...

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NASA wants to send your personalized message to aliens

Forty years-ago, before Voyager 1 left our solar system and careened into interstellar space, NASA equipped it with a golden record. But this wasn’t just any golden record; it was...

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NASA want's to study the dark matter in the universe with its new probe

NASA says it will send a new probe meant to understand the nature of mysterious dark energy, which makes up of about three-quarters of the universe and drives its endless...

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