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Ground control to Major Tom... Cruise! Tom Cruise is apparently in talks to become the first civilian in history to perform a spacewalk - and all for an untitled Universal movie. The idea was initially teased in 2020, when NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine tweeted about a collaboration between the space…
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Stargazers will be over-the-moon this evening, as the night sky is set to be illuminated by the Hunter's full moon and the conclusion of the Draconid meteor shower. According to the US Naval Observatory’s Astronomical Applications Department, per CNN, tonight's Hunter's full moon is set to reach its peak illumination…
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It's the stuff we would have only previously seen in Star Wars, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away - last night, a NASA spacecraft zeroed in on an asteroid over 7 million miles away from Earth, crashing into it in the world's first attempt to shift…
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Later this evening, NASA is going to intentionally collide a spacecraft into a huge asteroid. As reported by BBC News, the test - which has been dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART - is due to take place at 11:14PM GMT (07:14PM ET) tonight some million miles away…
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An astronaut shared his experience of 9/11. Frank Culbertson was the only American off-planet during the devastating terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. When the first plane hit the World Trade Center, Culbertson was approximately 250 miles above Earth, working in The International Space Station with two Russian cosmonauts. Looking…
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The last supermoon of the year is set to appear in the night sky this week. Named the "Sturgeon moon", it is deemed to be the fourth supermoon in a row after the Buck moon in July, Strawberry moon in June, and Flower moon in May. A supermoon takes place…
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NASA has unveiled the first set of photographs of the universe captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The instrument - which is the largest and most powerful telescope ever launched - revealed the wonders of our universe in more detail than ever before. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson had a…
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Yesterday, NASA released the first images from the James Webb space telescope. The instrument - which is the most powerful telescope ever launched - captured a sequence of stunning images of deep space. However, for many people, the release of the photos was soured by the telescope being named after…
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Mind-boggling blue swirls have been appearing in the New Zealand sky over the weekend. Locals were utterly confounded by the bizarre sightings, which took place on Sunday, June 19, over Nelson. By 7:30PM, they'd travelled 750km south to Stewart Island. Locals took to Twitter to share snaps of the baffling…
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NASA believes it has found discarded trash millions of miles away on Mars. Yes, if you thought littering was a problem on Earth, it turns out humans are already causing issues on planets we haven't even inhabited yet. New images captured by NASA's Perseverance rover were recently shared on one…
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The enormous black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy has been caught on camera for the first time. Astronomers from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration unveiled a picture of the object - known as Sagittarius A* - today. Located at the center of our galaxy, the…
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A huge asteroid that is larger than any building on Earth is expected to soar past the planet today. Called 7482 (1994 PC1), the asteroid is more than a kilometer wide at 3,451ft. Its size means it is bigger than the Burj Khalifa in Dubai which, at 2,723ft, is the…
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A priest and other religious experts are helping humanity prepare for the possibility of extraterrestrial life. NASA has called on 24 theologians to help them determine how different religions around the world would react to alien contact. They were hired by the space agency to take part in a year-long…
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A businessman who traveled to space alongside William Shatner and two others last month has tragically died after a small plane crashed in New Jersey. Glen de Vries, 49, had been aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft on October 13, spending more than 10 minutes in space after launch. Per…
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Jeff Bezos has been called out for making a serious social faux pas. On Wednesday, William Shatner — who is best known for playing the seminal role of Captain Kirk in the 1966 Star Trek series — fulfilled a lifelong dream after being blasted into space by Bezos' aerospace company,…
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Jeff Bezos has offered NASA $2 billion in exchange for a moon contract that will allow Blue Origin to land astronauts in space. The Amazon founder, 57, made history when he went to space last week, and now in an open letter to administrator Bill Nelson on July 26, he…
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The Dutch teenager who joined Jeff Bezos on his historic trip to space has revealed he's never actually ordered anything from Amazon. On July 20, 18-year-old Oliver Daemen made history when he traveled to the edge of space alongside Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the billionaire's brother, Mark Bezos, and aviation…
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The billionaire space race feud has taken a new turn as Elon Musk has laughed at a meme mocking Jeff Bezos' space flight. Twitter was left in hysterics when the Tesla founder replied to a question about the Tesla FSD Beta on Saturday, July 17, by tweeting: "Roughly". He was…
