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A Man in Poland Reported a Tank That Had Fallen From the Sky. It Was Actually a SpaceX Rocket That Reentered Uncontrollably Over Europe

Space

On Wednesday morning, the second stage of a Falcon 9 rocket disintegrated over Germany and Poland.

Astronomers Have Been Trying to Decipher a TV Signal Coming From the Sky for Five Years. The Mystery Is Finally Solved

Space

The recent finding puts an end to the mystery and represents a crucial step in protecting radio astronomy from electromagnetic pollution.

X-Ray Telescopes Reveal an Inconceivable Object: A Superstructure That Spans More Than a Billion Light-Years

Space

The so-called Quipu is the largest superstructure ever identified.

Scientists Spent Six Years Processing Images of Black Holes Just to Prove Something: Einstein Was Right

Space

The first image of black hole M87* faced skepticism, but a second image confirms its accuracy.

The Biggest Mystery Thriller Isn’t Currently in Theaters, but in Space: Hubble Is Investigating Whether a Star Has ‘Faked’ Its Own Death

Space

What astronomers initially believed to be a supernova may instead be the result of an entirely different but equally fascinating event.

The New Space Race Has Created Junk That Acts Like a Boomerang. It’s Also Raised the Risk of Colliding With Aircraft

Space

Although this is a low probability, it does exist.

Curiosity Continues to Send Videos From Mars Back to Earth. Its Latest One Reveals Something Unusual About the Planet’s Clouds

Space

Now more than a decade old, Curiosity continues to send back valuable data and captivating images from the Martian surface.

Astronomers Keep Proving Einstein Right 110 Years Later: The Euclid Telescope Has Discovered a Ring in Spacetime

Space

Albert Einstein predicted it in 1915. Scientists have seen it in photos today.

NASA Knows Exactly What It Wants to Do With Starship: Launch a Super Hubble Telescope Dedicated to Searching for Extraterrestrial Life

Space

The Hubble Space Telescope will have a much bigger and more powerful successor. Few rockets are capable of launching it.

Currently, All U.S. Phones Can Connect to Starlink Satellites for Free. This Will Change in July

Space

T-Mobile and SpaceX made the announcement during the Super Bowl.

Boeing Warns Its Employees to Prepare for a Potential Crisis: The Cancellation of NASA’s SLS Rocket

Space

The company says that if NASA proceeds to cancel the SLS in March, up to 400 layoffs could occur.

You’d Need to Detonate the Earth’s Nuclear Arsenal 130 Times to Release the Same Amount of Energy That Created the Moon’s Great Canyons

Space

The impact that formed these canyons occurred in about 10 minutes and resulted in depths greater than those of the Grand Canyon in Arizona.

The Probability of an Impact From Asteroid 2024 YR4 Has Increased to 1.8%. It Led the UN to Activate Global Defense Protocols for the First Time

Space

Space experts have collaborated with the United Nations to monitor the asteroid’s trajectory closely.

Elon Musk Isn’t Just Influencing NASA. He’s Starting to Dominate It

Space

From the idea of conquering Mars as part of America’s “manifest destiny” to securing key appointments, SpaceX and Musk’s presence at NASA seems to be becoming increasingly prominent.

A Collector Bought a Meteorite in Morocco in 2011. Scientists Say It Proves There’s Thermal Water on Mars

Space

The 320-gram rock was found in the Sahara Desert and subsequently sold to an American collector.

NASA Just Announced That a Large Asteroid Has a 1% Chance of Hitting Earth. That’s Not Normal

Space

The asteroid, estimated between 130 and 300 feet in diameter, is similar in size to the object that caused the Tunguska event in 1908.

Physics Is Broken, and the Evidence Is Mounting. The New Hubble Constant Estimate Deepens the Problem

Space

Experts have recalculated the universe’s expansion rate, deepening the discrepancy.

NASA Scientists Find All the DNA Nucleobases and 14 out of 20 Amino Acids in Bennu Asteroid Samples. They’re the Key Molecules for Life

Space

This discovery is as thrilling as you could expected from a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid.

China Sets the Date for the Largest Engineering Project 22,370 Miles From Earth: Its Solar Space Station

Energy

The goal is to capture continuous solar power from space, helping China reduce its reliance on fossil fuels.

Elon Musk Surprisingly Announces He’ll Rescue the Two NASA Astronauts Stuck in Space. It Makes No Sense

Space

By now, it’s no surprise that Musk would share propaganda on his X account. However, his latest post misrepresents reality in a particularly fanciful way.

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