By Reuters WASHINGTON—Astronomers have detected an act of extreme violence more than halfway across the known universe as a black hole shreds a star that wandered too close to this celestial…
Space
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By Reuters The spacecraft that NASA deliberately crashed into an asteroid last month succeeded in nudging the rocky moonlet out of its natural orbit—the first time humanity has altered the motion of a…
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By Reuters WASHINGTON—Unlike the lonely sun, about half the stars in our Milky Way galaxy are in a long-term committed relationship with another star, orbiting each another in a celestial marriage…
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SCIENCE & TECH
NASA’s DART Spacecraft Successfully Hits Asteroid in Historic Test of Planetary Defense
by EditorTBy Caden Pearson NASA’s asteroid-deflecting DART spacecraft successfully struck a football stadium-sized asteroid in a historic test of the world’s first planetary defense system, designed to prevent a cosmic doomsday collision with Earth.…
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By Reuters WASHINGTON—With more private companies launching people into space, the U.S. government said Friday that the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will take the lead in investigating future commercial space…
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SCIENCE & TECH
NASA Orders 5 More Astronaut Missions From Musk’s SpaceX in $1.4 Billion Deal
by EditorTWASHINGTON—SpaceX will launch five more astronaut missions to the International Space Station for NASA at the end of the decade under a $1.4 billion contract order, the space agency said Wednesday, taking the company’s…