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Lees meerObservatory might be able to spot distant stars, but it can't hear a bunch of engineers holding their breath NASA is preparing to have another crack at restoring the veteran Hubble telescope to service with a multi-day test of procedures to fire up …
Lees meerNew approach could lead to a system for geolocating dirt samples The University of Canberra and Australian Federal Police have detailed a new method for digging up dirt on crims – and it could mean an end to literally digging up dirt on crims.…
Lees meerData from NASA's 'scope may be years old now though discoveries keep on coming Astronomers have discovered four faraway Earth-mass exoplanets that appear to be floating in space all by themselves without a parent star to orbit.…
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Lees meerCrew do some DIY, move a camera, you know, the usual…but in zero gravity The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) has announced that two taikonauts successfully exited the Tianhe space station yesterday for China’s second ever spacewalk.…
Lees meerThe flight of the bearded one means Shepard will be second. Again Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson is set to take his first jaunt to the edge of space ahead of commercial spaceflight rival Jeff Bezos, with an 11 July trip aboard VSS Unity.…
Lees meerFinding could boost performance and efficiency of future gadgets The latest Apple fondleslab is thin, sure, but it could be thinner – like what boffins at Tel Aviv University have hailed as "the world's tiniest technology," measuring just two atoms …
Lees meer60 years after Alan Shepard made his Mercury flight, one of the Mercury 13 will get her turn Jeff Bezos has upped the ante in the battle of the billionaire bros by handing a seat in the first crewed New Shepard flight to Virgin Galactic customer and…
Lees meerLifespan of 3 to 5 years falls short of what's needed for a Mars mission NASA has demonstrated the first trapped-ion space clock in a move that could pave the way for real-time navigation in deep space.…
Lees meerWe're still keeping everything crossed that the engineers extract a rabbit from a hat once again The outlook continues to look a little bleak for NASA's veteran Hubble telescope as a former astronaut and a Space Shuttle manager weighed in on repair …
Lees meerWell, that was a busy month for gravitational wave boffins Gravitational wave detectors have reportedly spotted the merger of a black hole and a neutron star – not once but twice in the same month.…
Lees meerLocalised brain sleeping behind wakeful forgetfulness and poor atten Neuroscientists have developed a method for predicting when your mind might go blank or completely forget whatever it was we were talking about.…
Lees meerAmazon boss's Blue Origin New/Shepard launch currently scheduled for 20 July A pair of rich white men look set to duke it out at the edge of space after Virgin Galactic was given the green light by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to fly cu…
Lees meerOne team says DF2 is 72m LY away, another disagrees – we speak to both sides Never mind memory errors from radiation. Another deteriorating part of the decades-old Hubble Space Telescope has found itself in a spot of bother. This time its camera uni…
Lees meerChinese space agency emits footage of Red Planet rover Videos The China National Space Administration has released videos and pictures of its first Mars rover scooting around on the surface of the Red Planet.…
Lees meerGas giant's atmosphere has the right concentration of water and temperature Astroboffins from Queen's University Belfast reckon the clouds that swirl around Jupiter might contain enough water to support life.…
Lees meerWhy can't Ingenuity use its blades to clear panels? It's 2,145 miles away Amid reports of declining power levels, NASA's InSight lander looks set to keep its science instruments running for most of summer.…
Lees meerIt just works, until it unexpectedly and disastrously doesn't If you have a pacemaker, it’s probably not a good idea to hug your Apple kit. The company has warned about potential interference with implanted medical devices from virtually every produ…
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