HELSINKI — Chinese startup Space Pioneer has completed a launch pad at Jiuquan spaceport for its Tianlong-3 liquid propellent rocket ahead of a first orbital launch.
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The $621,000 Hunt for Alien Chemistry on Earth
UMass Amherst microbiologist James Holden brings decades of expertise in rare microbes to a NASA mission searching for life on Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa. Popular culture often imagines alien life as small green beings with oversized, oval…
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Earth Is Broadcasting Its Location to Aliens – And We Didn’t Mean To
Radar from airports and military systems may expose Earth to alien detection. These signals could be used to find intelligent civilizations. New research indicates that radar systems operated by both civilian airports and military facilities may…
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“Never Been Seen Before” – Astronomers Discover Bizarre “Infinity” Galaxy
Astronomers have discovered a galaxy shaped like an infinity symbol that may contain the first directly observed newborn supermassive black hole. Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and his team have identified a remarkable object in deep space,…
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House appropriators interested in alternatives to SLS EUS upper stage
LAS VEGAS — House appropriators want NASA to examine alternatives to a new upper stage for the Space Launch System despite an uncertain long-term future for the vehicle.
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NASA Launches Mission to Study Earth’s Magnetic Shield
NASA’s newest mission, TRACERS, soon will begin studying how Earth’s magnetic shield protects our planet from the effects of space weather. Short for Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, the twin TRACERS…
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SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-end Processing *
SETI@home is a radio Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project, looking for technosignatures in data recorded at multiple observatories from 1998–2020. Most radio SETI projects analyze data using dedicated processing hardware….
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Launch startup iRocket agrees to merge with Wilbur Ross-backed SPAC
TAMPA, Fla. — Innovative Rocket Technologies (iRocket) has agreed to merge with BPGC Acquisition Corp., a shell company backed by former U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross that has faced challenges landing a deal since going public,…
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Astronomers Confirm Fifth Exoplanet in L 98-59 System
Named L 98-59f, this planet is a non-transiting super-Earth with a minimal mass of 2.8 Earth masses on a 23-day orbit inside the habitable zone of the small red dwarf L 98-59.
An artist’s impression of the L 98-59 planetary system; in the…
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