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Breathing New Air Chinese astronauts claim to have created rocket fuel on board the country’s Tiangong space station using a new process dubbed “artificial photosynthesis.” As the South China Morning Post reports, the current Shenzhou-19 crowd produced the necessary ingredients of rocket fuel, including oxygen. The team used semiconductor catalysts to turn carbon dioxide and […]
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President Donald Trump is poised to dissolve the White House’s National Space Council after being heavily lobbied by SpaceX, Reuters reports — which ultimately sounds like a roundabout way of saying Elon Musk wants it gone, and is getting what he wants. Per the report, SpaceX’s top lobbyist Mat Dunn, along with Trump’s aides, have […]
Read MoreTall Boy A near-Earth asteroid is turning heads for its distinct shape. As seen in a series of radar images, the rocky object looks a whole lot like an enormous peanut tumbling through space. Or, depending on how you see it, a decapitated snowman. The object, known as 2024 ON, came within 621,000 miles of […]
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Rocky Future Don’t panic, but the odds of a massive asteroid named Apophis smashing into Earth just got a little bit higher. Originally projected to harmlessly fly past us in a close approach, a new study published in The Planetary Science Journal suggests that there’s actually a fraction of a chance that the 1,100 foot […]
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With a seemingly heavy heart, NASA admitted during a live conference today that it still wasn’t confident enough in Boeing’s Starliner to safely return its two stranded astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, from the International Space Station. The pair have been stuck on the orbital outpost since early June, but ongoing technical issues plaguing […]
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Boeing’s plagued Starliner is still stranded at the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who arrived at the station two months ago today still don’t have an official return date as the space agency is evaluating its options. And as Ars Technica reports, even having the doomed spacecraft return to […] […]
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