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SpaceX launches South Korea's 1st military satellite, nails rocket landing at sea

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX successfully launched South Korea's first military satellite Monday (July 20) and aced a rocket landing, too, to mark its 12th launch of the year. A sooty Falcon 9 rocket took to the skies today (July 20) at 5:30 p.m. EDT (2130 ...

What's next for Hope Mars orbiter? UAE faces long journey to Red Planet.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is bound for Mars. The country launched its first-ever interplanetary mission yesterday (July 19) in an ambitious bid to develop its science and technology sectors. The Emirates Mars Mission, also called Hope, blasted off from ...

Watch SpaceX launch a South Korean military satellite today

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch South Korea's first military satellite today (July 20) after a nearly weeklong delay for extra booster checks. The Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch the satellite, called Anasis-II, at 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT) today from ...

Quantum exciton found in magnetic van der Waals material

Fig. 1-a (Top) The crystal structure of NiPS3 ; Fig. 1-b (Down) An exciton state proposed for NiPS3. Credit: IBS. Things can always be done faster, but can anything beat light? Computing with light instead of electricity is seen as a breakthrough to boost ...

The Best Way to Watch Comet NEOWISE, Wherever You Are

Scientific American

Scientific American

Comet NEOWISE has been entertaining space enthusiasts across the Northern Hemisphere. Although its official name is C/2020 F3, the comet has been dubbed NEOWISE after the Near-Earth Object Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) space ...

NASA jettisons Apollo moon landing stats to reach 300th US EVA

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collectSPACE.com

To prepare for two of its astronauts marking a new milestone in space, NASA has decided to rewrite the records for many of its historic missions, including the first moon landing. As history records, Apollo 11 crew members Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin ...

Ultracold mystery solved: Researchers crack a molecular disappearing act

In a famous parable, three blind men encounter an elephant for the first time. Each touches a part—the trunk, ear, or side—and concludes the creature is a thick snake, fan, or wall. This elephant, said Kang-Kuen Ni, is like the quantum world. Scientists can ...

Venus probably has active volcanoes right now

Venus is a geologically active world today, a new study suggests. Researchers have identified three dozen features on Venus that were likely created by volcanism in the very recent past, potentially reshaping our understanding of the hellishly hot planet and ...

Astrophysicists fill in 11 billion years of the universe's expansion history

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) released today a comprehensive analysis of the largest three-dimensional map of the universe ever created, filling in the most significant gaps in our possible exploration of its history. "We know both the ancient history of ...

Scientists trace back strange behavior in South Atlantic magnetic field 11 million years

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CNN

(CNN) In case this was on your 2020 list of worries, the Earth's magnetic field is not about to reverse itself. Strange behavior in the South Atlantic magnetic field can be traced back as far as 11 million years ago, and it's unlikely to be linked to any impending ...