SpaceX, in particular, has thrived in this new entrepreneurial approach to spaceflight. Its Falcon 9 rocket, used for the space station missions, is now...

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4 Astronauts Float Into the International Space Station and Open Arms

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“Endeavour arriving.”With those words, the four members of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour began floating one by one into the International Space Station on...

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NASA Mars Helicopter’s Second Flight Is a Success

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NASA’s engineers already made history on Monday with the 39.1-second flight of Ingenuity, a small helicopter, in the thin atmosphere on Mars. On Thursday,...

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What Do You Call a Bunch of Black Holes: A Crush? A Scream?

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What do you call a black hole? Anything you want, the old joke goes, as long as you don’t call it late for dinner....

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The Lyrids Meteor Shower Will Peak in Night Skies

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All year long as Earth revolves around the sun, it passes through streams of cosmic debris. The resulting meteor showers can light up night...

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NASA’s Mars Helicopter Completes First Flight on Another Planet

kashif - April 19, 2021 0

A small robotic helicopter named Ingenuity made space exploration history on Monday when it lifted off the surface of Mars and hovered in the...

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Dazzling Skies, U.F.O. Sightings and Real-Life Monsters: The Week in Narrated Articles

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This weekend, listen to a collection of narrated articles from around The New York Times, read aloud by the reporters who wrote the story.Written...

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How a Burst of Light in the Sky Illuminated Something Primal

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I thought of this — our ancient trembling before a vast and unknown sky — when I heard the genuine fright in some of...

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A Tiny Particle’s Wobble Could Upend the Known Laws of Physics

kashif - April 8, 2021 0

At Fermilab, a new campus devoted to studying muons was being built.“That opened up a world of possibility,” Dr. Polly recalled in his biographical...

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The SpaceX Test Rocket for Mars Goes Up Again, and Explodes Again

kashif - March 30, 2021 0

On Tuesday morning, for the fourth time, SpaceX attempted a high-altitude test of its next-generation rocket and for the fourth time, it exploded.Through a...

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Hunting Ghost Particles Beneath the World’s Deepest Lake

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The lake is as much as a mile deep, with some of the clearest fresh water in the world, and a czarist-era railroad conveniently...

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