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Interstellar Travel II: the Birth of Fusion Drives

Welcome back to our series on Interstellar Travel, where we examine concepts that have been proposed since the dawn of the Space Age.

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Science • Aug 03

From Africa to Alaska, here's how BYU is helping NASA prepare for Dragonfly mission

NASA has called on a group of Brigham Young University researchers to help develop an understanding of the landscape its Dragonfly rotorcraft will be...

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Science • Aug 03

Canadian astronaut prepares for International Space Station mission

Growing up on a cattle farm in Fort Saskatchewan, Alta., Joshua Kutryk says he dreamt of going to space though he never thought it would happen.

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Science • Aug 03

Meteorite That Smashed Through a New Jersey Roof Hid an Ancient Chemical Secret

A meteorite that blasted through a New Jersey roof carried a startling secret: evidence of ancient salty fluids and complex organic chemistry inside a...

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Science • Aug 03

Bringing it all into focus—computational microscope captures 25.2 billion pixels per second across a wide field of view

When designing microscopes, optical engineers have long faced a trade-off between speed, field of view and resolution. But improving one of these properties...

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Science • Aug 03

NASA gives update on upcoming Crew-13 mission

(NewsNation) — NASA is preparing to launch the SpaceX Crew-13 mission in mid-September, and the agency provided an update on the mission.

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Science • Aug 03

This Is The Fastest Object Ever Built By Man

Traveling at an incredible 430000 mph, NASA's Parker Solar Probe holds the record as the fastest man-made object ever built. Learn how it moves so fast.

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Science • Aug 03

Best meteor shower of year to soon send up to 90 'shooting stars' an hour across new moon sky

Stargazers and outdoor recreators alike won't want to miss what August has in store. The Perseids, what tends to be the most popular meteor shower of the...

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Science • Aug 03

Best meteor shower of year, 2 eclipses highlight August skywatching events

SEATTLE — On the August episode of The Sky Above, KING 5 meteorologist and host Leah Pezzetti discusses the astronomy headlines of the month, including what...

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Science • Aug 03

Rubin Observatory opens a deep window on a famous cosmic field

A new Vera C. Rubin Observatory image featuring hundreds of thousands of distant galaxies in and around the COSMOS field marks the observatory's first LSST...

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Science • Aug 03

A SpaceX rocket will crash into the moon this week. Why is it on a collision course?

The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will slam into the moon early Wednesday morning (Aug. 5). Here's what put it on this kamikaze course.

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Science • Aug 03

How to keep the Earth habitable when the sun dies

In a billion years, the sun will start to run out of fuel and expand to become a red giant. Earth's oceans and atmosphere will be burned away, and Earth...

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Science • Aug 03

Spacewalk Preps, Health Research on Station as NASA Introduces SpaceX Crew-13

Spacewalk preparations and health research awaited the Expedition 75 crew aboard the International Space Station at the beginning of August.

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Science • Aug 03

Homo antecessor skull layers resemble modern humans and Neanderthals, fragments suggest

A new study provides quantitative data on cranial vault thickness in Homo antecessor, based on the analysis of three parietal fragments recovered from the...

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Science • Aug 03

The SpaceX Falcon Lunar Crash Is a Warning for Moon Bases

A SpaceX rocket that has been drifting in space for a year and a half is set to crash into the moon on Wednesday, stirring up a debris cloud that could be...

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Science • Aug 03

Even Black Holes Can Get Indigestion. Unsurprisingly, Their Farts Are ‘Massive’ Expulsions of Gas

Black holes are typically seen as enormous, bottomless pits with an insatiable appetite for cosmic matter—if anything, that's probably the one thing people...

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Science • Aug 03

Another Canadian is preparing to head to space, this time for ISS mission

Joshua Kutryck from Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta., is one of four members assigned to NASA's SpaceX Crew 13 mission set to spend six months at the ISS.

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Science • Aug 03

Ant teams beat gravity-based puzzle solvers

Ants live in highly organized colonies and cooperate daily to tackle a wide range of problems. Their striking group behaviors have fascinated biologists for...

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Science • Aug 03

Simulations hint at a hidden population of companionless black holes

So far, almost all stellar-mass black holes detected by astronomers have been found in binary systems. However, astronomers have long suspected that these...

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