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Should Pluto Be a Planet Again? Informal Vote Offers Support After Experts Debate A friendly debate about Pluto's planethood yesterday (April 29) ended in an informal vote that came down in favor of reinstating the dwarf planet's status. Early in the morning Eastern time, after a livestreamed Philosophical Society of Washington discussion ...
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Huge Asteroid Apophis Flies By Earth on Friday the 13th in 2029. For Scientists, It's a Lucky Day COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The solar system has a sense of humor: A decade from now, on Friday, April 13, 2029, a large asteroid will streak across the sky — but it's a cause for excitement, not fear, scientists say. That asteroid, called Apophis, stretches about ...
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NASA Ties Launch Failures of Climate-Science Missions to Aluminum Manufacturer The launch failures that doomed two recent NASA climate-science missions were caused by faulty materials provided by an aluminum manufacturer, agency officials announced today (April 30). NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) and Glory ...
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NASA Delays SpaceX Dragon Cargo Launch Due to Space Station Power Glitch A power glitch on the International Space Station has forced NASA and SpaceX to postpone the planned launch of a new Dragon cargo ship Wednesday (May 1), agency officials said in an update. SpaceX will now launch the Dragon resupply mission atop a ...
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6 Asteroids Will Buzz Earth Within a 2-Year Span and Scientists are Psyched Buckle your seat belts, Earthlings — the late 2020s will offer an incredible spree of close asteroid flybys, and none will pose a threat to life on Earth. The six flybys of relatively large asteroids will happen over a span of two years, beginning in June 2027.
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How to Celebrate the Moon Landing, From Coast to Coast It was one small step for man, and … well, you know. This summer marks the 50th anniversary of mankind's giant leap, and NASA centers, museums and even entire cities are gearing up to celebrate, planning late-night moon parties, symphony performances ...
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Searching for lost WWII-era uranium cubes from Germany Back in 2013, Timothy Koeth, an associate research professor at the University of Maryland, received a rather extraordinary birthday gift: a little cloth lunch pouch containing a small object wrapped in brown paper towels. As Koeth peeled back the layers, his ...
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Oldest Human Footprint in Americas May Be This 15600-Year-Old Mark in Chile The earliest human footprint on record in the Americas wasn't found in Canada, the United States or even Mexico; it was found much farther south, in Chile, and it dates to an astonishing 15,600 years ago, a new study finds. The finding sheds light on when ...
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Astronomers witness 'one of the most extraordinary black hole systems' (CNN) Nearly 8,000 light-years away from Earth, astronomers have discovered a black hole that keeps rapidly swinging out jets of plasma clouds into space, according to a new study. The black hole, known as V404 Cygni, doesn't behave like others. The jets ...
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NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 26 April 2019 - Emergency Drill Today The six-member Expedition 59 crew conducted a routine, periodic drill for response to emergencies today in the middle of a science-packed day. The astronauts also researched space biology while preparing for next week's SpaceX Dragon cargo mission.
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