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Orion capsule enters distant retrograde orbit, breaks Apollo distance record NASA's Orion spacecraft fired its main engine Friday to slip into a distant lunar orbit, putting it on course to range farther from Earth than any of the Apollo astronauts flew in humanity's first exploration missions to the moon.
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NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft reaches maximum distance from Earth today Orion is an uncrewed journey around the moon to let NASA engineers assess the spacecraft's readiness ahead of human missions, which are currently planned to begin with the crewed Artemis 2 mission looping around the moon in 2024 or so.
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NASA's Orion spacecraft reaches record-breaking distance from Earth on Artemis I mission The space agency confirmed Monday evening that the Orion capsule had reached the midpoint of its uncrewed mission around the moon — about 270,000 miles (434,523 kilometers) from Earth. That's more than 40,000 miles (64,374 kilometers) beyond the far side ...
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Hubble Space Telescope captures stunning intergalactic bridge of stars in new image Stretching like a celestial bridge across space, Arp 248 — also known as Wild's Triplet — is a spectacular sight for keen-eyed astronomers. The Hubble Space Telescope offers a new view of the mesmerizing trio in a photo released on Oct 31 that shows ...
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Newly identified dinosaur that lived on island of dwarfed creatures had an unusual head A previously unknown dinosaur with a remarkably flat head lived around 70 million years ago on an island home to dwarfed prehistoric creatures. Discovered in what's now western Romania, the Transylvanosaurus platycephalus (flatheaded reptile from ...
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Nebulas glow with forming stars in stunning new image The James Webb Space Telescope isn't the only observatory peering deep into nebulas and taking captivating infrared images of them. The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) has captured this ...
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What happened to those CubeSats that were launched with Artemis I? NASA made history on November 16 when the Artemis I mission took off from Launch Complex 39B at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on its way to the moon. This uncrewed mission is testing the capabilities of the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft in ...
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Cracking open a fossil bone reveals rapid juvenile growth in early tetrapods The rise of tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrates) is one of the iconic evolutionary transitions preserved in the fossil record. These animals, which lived about 385 to 320 million years ago during the Devonian and Carboniferous periods of Earth's history ...
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Inside the Plan to Unveil the Second-Closest Supermassive Black Hole About 820,000 light-years from Earth, something strange is afoot. Right in this region -- which is quite close, cosmically speaking -- a petite dwarf galaxy named Leo I appears to be housing an utterly massive black hole that's been flying under the ...
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New device can control light at unprecedented speeds An international group of researchers, led by a team at MIT, spent more than four years tackling this problem of high-speed optical beam forming. They have now demonstrated a programmable, wireless device that can ...
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