12 h. ago Netflix partners with NASA as space agency looks to boost rocket launch viewership

Streamer will launch NASA+ live programming this summer

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5 d. ago NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just found its first exoplanet

The planet is 110 light-years away from Earth and has the smallest mass observed by direct imagery

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5 d. ago India, Poland and Hungary make spaceflight comeback with ISS mission

Countries send their first astronauts in decades into space on Axiom Mission 4, along with US commanderA US commercial mission carrying crew from India, Poland and Hungary blasted off to the International Space Station on Wednesday, taking astronauts from these countries to space for the first time in decades.Axiom Mission 4, or Ax-4, launched from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 2.31am local time with a brand-new SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule riding atop a Falcon 9 rocket. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Elon Musk jokes that it's 'just a scratch' as his SpaceX Starship rocket bursts into a gigantic ball of flames during explosion at test site in Texas

Elon Musk has made light of the latest SpaceX test, which ended with the enormous rocket exploding on the launch pad.

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1 week ago SpaceX Starship rocket explodes into massive fireball in 'major anomaly' before 10th test flight

Elon Musk's SpaceX has been hit with yet another setback with its Starship rocket – this time before it even left the launch site

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1 week ago SpaceX Starship rocket explodes in dramatic fireball after ‘major anomaly’

A SpaceX rocket being tested in Texas exploded on Wednesday night, sending a dramatic fireball high into the sky.

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1 week ago Is Netflix actually pulling the strings of Meghan's business As Ever? The subtle clue she let slip

When Meghan Markle first stepped into the world of the Royal Family, she liked to portray herself as a UN ambassador and do-gooder environmentalist.

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2 w. ago ‘People didn’t like women in space’: how Sally Ride made history and paid the price

Ride was the first US woman in space – but a National Geographic documentary looks at how she was forced to hide her queerness to succeedA week before Sally – a documentary about the first American woman to fly into space – landed at the Sundance film festival in January, Nasa employees received emails informing them how Donald Trump’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) rollbacks would take effect.Contracts and offices associated with DEI programs were to be terminated. Staff were given Orwellian instruction to inform the government of any attempt to disguise inclusion efforts in “coded or imprecise language”. In the weeks to follow, Nasa would take back its promise to send the first woman and person of color to the moon’s surface. Meanwhile, employees are reported to be hiding their rainbow flags and any other expressions of solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community, allegedly because they were instructed to do so though Nasa denies those claims. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Astronaut missions postponed amid concerns about leaks at International Space Station

Chartered spaceflight for India, Poland and Hungary’s first astronauts in decades delayed indefinitelyA chartered spaceflight for India, Poland and Hungary’s first astronauts in decades has been delayed indefinitely because of leak concerns at the International Space Station.The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) said Thursday that it had postponed the Axiom Mission 4 to the ISS to monitor the cabin pressure on the Russian side of the orbiting lab before accepting visitors. Officials stressed that the seven astronauts currently at the space station are safe and that other operations up there would not be affected. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Astronaut mission postponed amid leak concerns at International Space Station

Chartered spaceflight for India, Poland and Hungary’s first astronauts in decades delayed indefinitelyA chartered spaceflight for India, Poland and Hungary’s first astronauts in decades has been delayed indefinitely because of leak concerns at the International Space Station.The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) said on Thursday that it had postponed the Axiom Mission 4 to the ISS to monitor the cabin pressure on the Russian side of the orbiting lab before accepting visitors. Officials stressed that the seven astronauts currently at the space station were safe and that other operations up there would not be affected. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Solar Orbiter offers first glimpse of the Sun’s poles in breakthrough mission

The European Space Agency released images from the robotic Solar Orbiter spacecraft

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2 w. ago Sun’s south pole revealed for first time, in images from Solar Orbiter spacecraft

Groundbreaking observations map chaotic patchwork of magnetic activity, said to be key to understanding how sun’s field flipsThe sun’s uncharted south pole has been revealed for the first time in striking images beamed back from the Solar Orbiter spacecraft.The joint European Space Agency (ESA) and Nasa mission swooped below the planetary plane and, for the first time, captured the sun’s mysterious polar regions. The groundbreaking observations also mapped a chaotic patchwork of magnetic activity at the sun’s pole that scientists say is key to understanding how the sun’s field flips roughly every 11 years. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago NASA shuts down X accounts as fears swirl about massive cuts to science initiatives

The agency’s budget proposal slashes total funding by nearly 25 percent, impacting science programs

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3 w. ago These mysterious dark ‘streaks’ on Mars aren’t what scientists initially believed

Hundreds of meters long, the marks on the red planet’s surface mysteriously vanish and reappear

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3 w. ago Elon Musk threatens to strand astronauts in space in brutal war with Donald Trump

The Space X tech billionaire insisted that he would decommission the vital spacecraft ferrying NASA astronauts to and from the International Space Station after his bromance ended

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3 w. ago Trump urged to immediately SEIZE SpaceX from Musk after fallen 'First Buddy' threatened to leave NASA astronauts stranded in space

Steve Bannon, former senior adviser to President Donald Trump and a fierce critic of Elon Musk, has called for direct action to be taken against the billionaire entrepreneur.

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3 w. ago Trump urged to immediately SEIZE Space X from Musk after fallen 'First Buddy' threatened to leave NASA astronauts stranded in space

Steve Bannon, former senior adviser to President Donald Trump and a fierce critic of Elon Musk, has called for direct action to be taken against the billionaire entrepreneur.

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3 w. ago Elon Musk makes spiteful move against Trump that could lead to NASA stranded astronauts 2.0

Elon Musk has just taken his new feud with President Trump is the next level, essentially promising to strand NASA's astronauts on the International Space Station.

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3 w. ago Our galaxy may not collide with Andromeda after all says thrilling new research

There's good news for us as new research using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ESA’s Gaia observatory has cast doubt on our galaxy smashing in to our neighbour

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3 w. ago Move over Harry and Meghan: Britain’s real royal family are now dominating the US headlines | Arwa Mahdawi

Family fallout. Two feuding brothers. An ambitious American actor wife the Beckhams certainly seem to have a lot in common with the SussexesSo long, and thanks for all the jam. Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and queen of Montecito, recently announced that she is reimagining As Ever, her raspberry spread and “flower sprinkle” business. In an interview with Fast Company, which Meghan conducted in fluent buzzword, the actor and entrepreneur said she is thinking bigger than jarred goods and partnering with Netflix to bring forth a vision in which “content and commerce meet, not in a product placement way, but rather in an ideological way”. (I think the ideology she is referencing here is capitalism). Meghan is now involved with so many different projects that she notes: “If I had to write a résumé, I don’t know what I would call myself.”It looks as though her husband, Henry Charles Albert David Mountbatten-Windsor, doesn’t know what to call himself either. The big Harry news from recent days...

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