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These 10 super extreme exoplanets are out of this world It's almost hard to believe that until the early years of the 1990s, astronomers had yet to discover a planet outside the solar system. Even though scientists were certain that other stars orbited other stars, there was little evidence of other planetary systems until ...
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Stakes are high for Boeing Starliner's 2nd space station try this week The CST-100 Starliner capsule is scheduled to launch Friday (July 30) at 2:53 p.m. EDT (1853 GMT) on a crucial uncrewed demonstration mission to the International Space Station. You can watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA, or directly via the ...
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Boeing Starliner OFT-2 launch to space station delayed following Russian module mishap Boeing's Starliner spacecraft will have to wait to make its triumphant trip to space. Today (July 29), officials at NASA and Boeing announced that Boeing's uncrewed Orbital Flight Test 2 (OFT-2) mission for its Starliner astronaut taxi will be delayed from Friday ...
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High drama as Russian lab module tilts space station with errant thruster firings A heavyweight Russian laboratory module that experienced a variety of problems after launch last week docked at the International Space Station Thursday, but in a moment of unexpected drama, inadvertent thruster firings briefly knocked the sprawling ...
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Move asteroids now before they become a threat, researchers argue Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of "Ask a Spaceman" and "Space Radio," and author of "How to Die in Space." Sutter contributed this article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. There's no ...
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Mars' buried polar 'lakes' may just be frozen clay Bright reflections that radar detected beneath the south pole of Mars may not be underground lakes as previously thought but deposits of clay instead, a new study finds. For decades, scientists have suspected that water lurks below the polar ice caps of Mars, ...
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Russia's Nauka module briefly tilts space station with unplanned thruster fire A little over three hours after docking was complete, cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov were in the Zvezda module to which Nauka docked, preparing to open the hatch between the two vehicles. Then, at 12 ...
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New Russian lab's thrusters briefly knock space station out of orientation Rocket motors in the Russian Zvezda module, where the Nauka multipurpose laboratory had docked earlier, automatically began firing to counteract the unwanted thrust, aided later by thrusters in a Progress cargo ship. Within an hour, the station was back in its ...
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Plant PIEZO homologs modulate vacuole morphology during tip growth Plant homologs of the animal mechanosensitive channels are not found in the plasma membrane but rather in the tonoplast. In both moss and the small flowering plant Arabidopsis, mutations in plant Piezo sensors altered vacuolar morphology and growth ...
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Saturn Will Soon Put On Its Best Show Of The Year. Here's Where And How To See It The ringed planet will be at opposition on Sunday for people in North America. What exactly does that mean? Imagine Earth and Saturn are hands on a clock face, says Phil Plait, an astronomer and longtime science educator. "So very roughly once a year, ...
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