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Comet, rocket, space junk or meteor? Here’s how to tell your fireballs apart
Like meteors, space junk travels at vast speeds as it travels through the atmosphere and it begins burning up spectacularly.
NASA's Dragonfly passes key test. A look at its upcoming mission to Saturn's moon
NASA's eight-rotor Dragonfly drone just finished a crucial test, which confirmed the spacecraft's design and will allow the ...
MIT Snaps Stunning First Photos of Atoms Interacting in Open Space
MIT scientists have snapped the first-ever images of individual atoms interacting freely in space, making visible the elusive ...
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Two European spacecraft perform dramatic world-first solar eclipse maneuver
ESA’s Proba-3 mission pulled off the first-ever artificial eclipse in space using fully automated spacecraft formation flying ...
For the First Time, Scientists Caught Atoms Freely Interacting in Space—and It Was Stunning
Until now, atoms have never been imaged interacting freely in space, but a new technique known as non-resolved microscopy has ...
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A failed Soviet Venus probe is falling to Earth, and an astronomer will attempt to catch it on camera on May 9
Since its failed launch, the spacecraft's descent module — a heavy, durable object built to survive entry into Venus's atmosphere — has remained in orbit. It has been slowly descending toward Earth ...
These Satellites Just Nailed the Most Precise Formation Flight in Space History
After initial positioning by ground control, the satellite duo’s autonomous system of cameras, LEDs, and laser rangefinders ...
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Launched by NASA, a High-Tech UMass Lowell Camera Aims to Help Predict Space Weather
LOWELL, Mass. – A multichannel camera designed by UMass Lowell hitched a ride on a NASA mission Saturday, May 3, successfully ...
Scientists chased a falling spacecraft with a plane to understand satellite air pollution
A dramatic aircraft chase of a falling spacecraft has provided new insights into the fiery processes that accompany the ...
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Hidden camera found in women’s bunkroom at El Cajon fire station: report
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A hidden camera was reportedly discovered in the women’s bunkroom at El Cajon Fire Station 8, prompting an investigation into potential privacy violations, according ...
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Spy camera found in women’s bunkroom at California fire station. ‘So violating.’
She said she was immediately “sick to my stomach” on learning of the hidden camera in the room where she slept and changed clothes. “This is so big and so violating.” Also disturbing is ...
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International Space Station’s Camera Captures Mysterious Markings Stretching Across the Tunisian Desert
High above Earth, while most of us are grounded in routine, cameras aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are busy capturing glimpses of our world that few ever see—a glimmering fishing ...