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50 Years Ago, 3 Astronauts Survived Apollo 13. Could It Happen Again?

Apollo 13 almost killed three NASA astronauts. How much safer will it be the next time that people head to the moon, more than 50 years later? Will it indeed be safer? "Safer, yes," said Douglas O. Stanley, president and executive director of the National ...

'Oumuamua origin story: How our mysterious interstellar visitor may have been born

Our solar system's first known interstellar visitor may have a very violent origin story. The mysterious object 'Oumuamua, which was spotted zooming through the inner solar system in October 2017, is probably a fragment of a larger body that was torn apart by ...

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The audacious plan that could save a species

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The future of the northern white rhino is looking bleak. Only two are left in the world - both are female. But scientists have an outlandish plan to save them from extinction. When I went to meet the rhinos in Kenya, they began circling the car. So I was alarmed ...

You can see the moon shine with Jupiter, Saturn and Mars before dawn this week. Here's how.

The predawn hours this week will sparkle as Jupiter, Saturn and Mars dance around the moon on consecutive mornings. On Tuesday morning (April 14), the moon will be moving toward the largest planet in our solar system, giant Jupiter. Then, on Wednesday ...

Apollo 13 astronauts and flight controllers reflect on a 'successful failure'

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(CNN) On the evening of April 13, 50 years ago, NASA astronauts James Lovell Jr., John Swigert Jr. and Fred Haise Jr. were about to go to sleep for the night in the Apollo 13 command module. They were about 200,000 miles away from Earth on the way to ...

Intuitive Machines targets vast 'Ocean of Storms' valley for private moon lander in 2021

A private moon lander's first flight in 2021 has come into much sharper focus. The robotic Nova-C spacecraft built by Intuitive Machines will touch down near Vallis Schröteri, the largest valley on the moon, on its initial delivery mission for NASA in October 2021 ...

Boom! Distant star explosion is brightest ever seen

This supernova is one for the record books. A mammoth star explosion known as SN2016aps, which occurred in a galaxy about 3.6 billion light-years from Earth, is the brightest supernova ever seen, a new study reports. "We can measure supernovae using ...

NASA Wants to Photograph the Surface of an Exoplanet

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WIRED

It wasn't that long ago that the only known planets in our galaxy were those orbiting our own sun. But over the past few decades, astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets and concluded that they outnumber the stars in our galaxy. Many of these ...

Katharine, the Great White Shark Who Ghosted Her Trackers, Resurfaces

In the making of "Jaws," the three mechanical models of the shark, collectively known as Bruce, earned a reputation for being notoriously unreliable. Bruce was a temperamental star of the 1975 Steven Spielberg film, and prolonged breakdowns were a ...

Weird alien planet may be core of stripped-down gas giant

A distant world about 40 times more massive than Earth may be the remnant core of a giant planet, or a giant planet in the making whose growth stalled, a new study reports. These findings may help shed light on what the mysterious cores of giant planets ...