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Comet SWAN live stream: How to watch the bright Comet SWAN tonight as it nears the Sun - Express.co.uk 29-May-2020

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Comet SWAN live stream: How to watch the bright Comet SWAN tonight as it nears the Sun - Express.co.uk COMET SWAN will close-in on the Sun tonight, making its closest approach of the star. Find out how to watch the spectacle live online. More...

Perseverance rover: From Baker Street to Mars - Perseverance - Economic Times 29-May-2020

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Perseverance rover: From Baker Street to Mars - Perseverance - Economic Times American space agency NASA’s latest Mars mission, the Perseverance rover is set to land on the red planet on February 18, 2021. Perseverance More...

NASA launch today: A new era of space exploration begins - WUSA9 29-May-2020

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NASA launch today: A new era of space exploration begins - WUSA9 What will the future of NASA look like? More...

Strange New Class of Cosmic Explosions Discovered by Astronomers - SciTechDaily 29-May-2020

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Strange New Class of Cosmic Explosions Discovered by Astronomers - SciTechDaily Blasts differ from 'ordinary' supernovae, gamma-ray bursts. Astronomers have found two objects that, added to a strange object discovered in 2018, constitute a new class of cosmic explosions. The new type of explosion shares some characteristics with supernov… More...

Astronomers recategorize asteroid-like comet - Phys.org 29-May-2020

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Astronomers recategorize asteroid-like comet - Phys.org Recently discovered object 2019 LD2, originally believed to be the first cometary "Jupiter Trojan" asteroid by astronomers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Astronomy turns out to be an interloper comet masquerading as a member of the Trojan… More...

Indian-Origin Physicist Creates Fifth State of Matter From Her Living Room - Mashable India 29-May-2020

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Indian-Origin Physicist Creates Fifth State of Matter From Her Living Room - Mashable India In an amazing feat, a physicist was able to create the fifth state of matter, Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) by controlling their lab equipment from her living room. More...

'Ring of Fire' Galaxy From 11 Billion Years Ago Discovered - Newsweek 29-May-2020

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'Ring of Fire' Galaxy From 11 Billion Years Ago Discovered - Newsweek R5519 is thought to have formed through a collision with a "victim" galaxy about three billion years after the Big Bang. More...

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen says SpaceX launch will 'speak to opportunity' - Global News 29-May-2020

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Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen says SpaceX launch will 'speak to opportunity' - Global News A historic SpaceX launch is set to take place Wednesday- marking a milestone in human spaceflight for the U.S. as the first all-American flight to be sent in... More...

Elon Musk talks to astronauts as SpaceX-NASA mission is set to proceed | AFP - AFP News Agency 29-May-2020

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Elon Musk talks to astronauts as SpaceX-NASA mission is set to proceed | AFP - AFP News Agency SpaceX CEO Elon Musk talks to astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley as the historic SpaceX-NASA mission is set to proceed on schedule, although uncertainty ... More...

Chimpanzee lip-smacking offers clue to evolution of human speech - Reuters 29-May-2020

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Chimpanzee lip-smacking offers clue to evolution of human speech - Reuters Scientists in the UK say they've discovered chimpanzees smack their lips just like human's do when they talk. The breakthrough indicates that clear methods o... More...

'Tax' On Satellites Will Reduce Space Junk - CBS Denver 29-May-2020

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'Tax' On Satellites Will Reduce Space Junk - CBS Denver Just beyond the reach of Earth's atmosphere, an estimated 20,000 objects travel around the planet in low orbit. More...

SpaceX Falcon 9 launch postponed until Saturday due to weather - Fox Business 29-May-2020

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SpaceX Falcon 9 launch postponed until Saturday due to weather - Fox Business The SpaceX Falcon 9 launch scheduled for Wednesday has been postponed until Saturday due to weather. #FoxBusiness Subscribe to Fox Business! https://bit.ly/2... More...

Director of Kennedy Space Center speaks to First Coast News ahead of space launch - First Coast News 29-May-2020

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Director of Kennedy Space Center speaks to First Coast News ahead of space launch - First Coast News The director of the Kennedy Space Center spoke to First Coast News about the significance of the upcoming space launch. More...

Three reasons why rocket launches get scrubbed - Washington Post 29-May-2020

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Three reasons why rocket launches get scrubbed - Washington Post SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launch was scrubbed due to bad weather on May 27. Here are other reasons teams may cancel a launch. Read more: https://wapo.st/2X9mB... More...

Third European Service Module for Artemis Mission to Land Astronauts on the Moon - SciTechDaily 29-May-2020

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Third European Service Module for Artemis Mission to Land Astronauts on the Moon - SciTechDaily It’s official: when astronauts land on the Moon in 2024 they will get there with help from the European Service Module. The European Space Agency signed a contract with Airbus to build the third European Service Module for NASA’s Orion spacecraft that will fe… More...

New beast: Astronomers detect another rare blue optic..ansient in the universe, 500 million-light-years-away - Firstpost 29-May-2020

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New beast: Astronomers detect another rare blue optic..ansient in the universe, 500 million-light-years-away - Firstpost This explosion has taken scientists by surprise because of its speed and heaviness of the material outflows. More...

Second penumbral lunar eclipse of 2020 to occur on 5 June: Here's when you can see it in India - Firstpost 29-May-2020

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Second penumbral lunar eclipse of 2020 to occur on 5 June: Here's when you can see it in India - Firstpost The penumbral lunar eclipse is called the 'Strawberry Moon Eclipse' where 57 percent of the moon is expected to pass into the Earth’s penumbra. More...

Elon Musk's SpaceX suit is like a tuxedo for the Starship Enterprise - Times of India 29-May-2020

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Elon Musk's SpaceX suit is like a tuxedo for the Starship Enterprise - Times of India US News: Michael Bay, the director of the 1998 cosmic disaster movie “Armageddon,” once gave an interview discussing the worst crisis in the making of the film. More...

Prehistoric Great White Shark Nursery Discovered in Chile - Newsweek 29-May-2020

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Prehistoric Great White Shark Nursery Discovered in Chile - Newsweek The site was discovered by chance by scientists studying fossilized shark and ray teeth at three locations in South America. More...

Climate change is driving widespread forest death and creating shorter, younger trees - CNBC 29-May-2020

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Climate change is driving widespread forest death and creating shorter, younger trees - CNBC The Amazon rainforest, which has been decimated by cattle ranching and wildfires, is the biggest deforestation front in the world with more than 20% of the forest already destroyed. More...

Massive shelf cloud looms above SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket - AccuWeather 29-May-2020

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Massive shelf cloud looms above SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket - AccuWeather Take a look at this eerie shelf cloud hovering above the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, set to lift off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on May 27, 2020. The bad weath... More...

Hubble's Brand New Image of Saturn (2019) - NASA Goddard 29-May-2020

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Hubble's Brand New Image of Saturn (2019) - NASA Goddard This video features a new Hubble Space Telescope view of Saturn, taken in late June of 2019, which reveals the giant planet's iconic rings. Saturn’s amber co... More...

'It has really changed Titusville:' Businesses say launch crowd brought much-needed boost - WKMG News 6 ClickOrlando 29-May-2020

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'It has really changed Titusville:' Businesses say launch crowd brought much-needed boost - WKMG News 6 ClickOrlando Though thousands may have been disappointed the SpaceX Falcon 9 did not launch Wednesday, businesses in Titusville are grateful for the boost, saying what wa... More...

Astronomers Confirm The Earth-Sized Planet at Proxima Centauri Is Definitely There - ScienceAlert 29-May-2020

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Astronomers Confirm The Earth-Sized Planet at Proxima Centauri Is Definitely There - ScienceAlert Using state-of-the-art astronomical instruments, an international team of researchers has confirmed the existence of Proxima b, an Earth-like planet that's orbiting the closest star to our Solar System, Proxima Centauri. More...

NASA-SpaceX Demo-2 mission: What is special about the ‘Starman suits’? - The Indian Express 29-May-2020

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NASA-SpaceX Demo-2 mission: What is special about the ‘Starman suits’? - The Indian Express The ‘Starman suits’, described as resembling a tuxedo, have been designed by Hollywood costume designer Jose Fernandez. More...