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Elon Musk’s satellites litter the heavens as astonishing video shows how 5,000 Starlink aircraft are whizzing around the Earth and ‘will soon outnumber the stars’

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Elon Musk’s satellites litter the heavens as astonishing video shows how 5,000 Starlink aircraft are whizzing around the Earth and ‘will soon outnumber the stars’

Elon Musk’s satellites litter the heavens as astonishing video shows how 5,000 Starlink aircraft are whizzing around the Earth and ‘will soon outnumber the stars’ Elon Musk’s 5,000 Starlink satellites are on track to surpass the number of visible stars in the sky, around 9,000 A fascinating video showed the staggering number floating around in … Read more

Mysterious black dust found on asteroid sample that crashed to Earth: Canister holding debris from Bennu is covered in an ‘unidentifiable’ element

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Mysterious black dust found on asteroid sample that crashed to Earth: Canister holding debris from Bennu is covered in an ‘unidentifiable’ element

NASA was forced to halt work on the asteroid samples that crashed to Earth this week after scientists spotted mysterious black dust inside the canister. The samples were collected from Bennu’s surface in 2020 as part of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission and touched down in the Utah desert on Sunday. Scientists cracked open the canister today, which … Read more

NASA’s ‘asteroid autumn’: MailOnline delves into a trio of exciting missions – from visiting a ‘$10,000 QUADRILLION space rock’ to retrieving a sample from a 4.5 billion-year-old rock that could reveal how life on Earth began

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NASA’s ‘asteroid autumn’: MailOnline delves into a trio of exciting missions – from visiting a ‘$10,000 QUADRILLION space rock’ to retrieving a sample from a 4.5 billion-year-old rock that could reveal how life on Earth began

It has been billed as NASA’s ‘asteroid autumn’ and involves a trio of exciting missions that could answer some truly mind-boggling questions.   From offering clues to how life on Earth began, to unlocking the secrets of the solar system, key milestones for each voyage are due to play out over the next six weeks. They include one … Read more

NASA claims it has FINALLY debunked one of the most famous UFO videos that was captured by Navy fighter jets off the coast of Florida – but not all scientists are convinced

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NASA claims it has FINALLY debunked one of the most famous UFO videos that was captured by Navy fighter jets off the coast of Florida – but not all scientists are convinced

It was one of the pivotal UFO videos captured by the US military that helped thrust the once-fringe topic into the mainstream — the so-called ‘GOFAST’ infrared video filmed by US Navy fighter pilots off the coast of the Atlantic in January 2015. But NASA claims it has debunked any exotic or extraterrestrial theories for GOFAST, boasting … Read more

Huge breakthrough in the search for aliens: NASA discovers a ‘super Earth’ exoplanet that could have the right conditions to support life

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Huge breakthrough in the search for aliens: NASA discovers a ‘super Earth’ exoplanet that could have the right conditions to support life

Scientists have made an exciting and potentially ground-breaking discovery in the search for alien life, after detecting signs of a gas produced only by living organisms on a distant water planet. K2-18 b, which is more than eight times the size of Earth and 120 light-years away from us, sits within the habitable zone of its cool … Read more

Rare ‘super blue moon’ which won’t be seen again for 14 years lights up the skies around the world

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Rare ‘super blue moon’ which won’t be seen again for 14 years lights up the skies around the world

A FULL MOON  is the phase of the moon in which its whole disc is illuminated. During the 29.5-day lunar cycle, we observe a new moon (with 0 per cent illumination), a waxing moon (when the amount of illumination on the moon is increasing), a full moon (100 per cent illumination) and then a waning moon … Read more

What happens if someone DIES in space? Experts reveal how dead bodies are frozen or MUMMIFIED before sailing through the cosmos for millions of years

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What happens if someone DIES in space? Experts reveal how dead bodies are frozen or MUMMIFIED before sailing through the cosmos for millions of years

With NASA aiming to return humans to the moon later this decade and perhaps send people to Mars in the 2030s, a lot of thought will have to go into how humans might survive long-distance space travel. But what if the unthinkable happens and someone dies?  In six decades of human spaceflight a total of … Read more

NASA’s Voyager 2 is ALIVE: ‘Heartbeat signal’ from legendary spacecraft is picked up after human error accidentally severed contact with humanity’s second most distant probe 12 billion miles from home

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NASA’s Voyager 2 is ALIVE: ‘Heartbeat signal’ from legendary spacecraft is picked up after human error accidentally severed contact with humanity’s second most distant probe 12 billion miles from home

After weeks of silence and worry, NASA has finally heard Voyager 2 come back to life.  Communication with the unmanned probe was lost on July 21 when controllers accidentally sent a wrong command that tilted its antenna away from Earth – NASA only revealed the issue Friday. The American Space Agency’s Deep Space Network, made up … Read more

‘Cannibal’ coronal mass ejection from the sun will smash into Earth TODAY – and could spark geomagnetic storms and trigger power outages, scientists warn

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‘Cannibal’ coronal mass ejection from the sun will smash into Earth TODAY – and could spark geomagnetic storms and trigger power outages, scientists warn

It’s pretty common for Earth to be struck by coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that have erupted from the sun. But what is less familiar to scientists is the terrifyingly-named ‘cannibal’ ejection of energetic and highly magnetised gas, which is exactly what is currently on a collision course with our planet. Having originated from multiple solar … Read more

The silliest mistakes made by the cleverest people in history from Albert Einstein to Charles Darwin

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The silliest mistakes made by the cleverest people in history from Albert Einstein to Charles Darwin

The silliest mistakes made by the cleverest men and women in history from Albert Einstein to Charles Darwin By Mark Mason For The Daily Mail Published: 21:42 BST, 8 June 2023 | Updated: 21:45 BST, 8 June 2023 The Limits of Genius   by Katie Spalding (Wildfire £13.49, 352pp) Having travelled all the way to Mars, … Read more