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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
A black hole may have been detected swallowing a neutron star for the first time ever, astronomers have said. Vast gravitational waves – which scientists think could have been caused by such a merger – have been seen ripping across space.Astronomers...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX launched a load of supplies to the International Space Station on Saturday following a pair of unusual power delays.
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
Another country, another test, yet more debris floating through the crowded realm of near-orbit space. On March 27, India became the latest country to carry out an anti-satellite (ASAT) test resulting in debris. India sought to frame the test as a si...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sent a robotic Dragon cargo capsule on the first leg of its trip to the International Space Station, loaded up with more than two tons of supplies — including NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 and scores of other science e...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday Iran must counter U.S. sanctions by continuing to export its oil as well as boosting non-oil exports. Rouhani's comments, carried live on Iranian TV, came a day after Washington acted to force Iran to stop p...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese aerospace startup funded by a former internet maverick successfully launched a small rocket into space Saturday, making it the first commercially developed Japanese rocket to reach orbit.
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
Arguably few aircraft are quite as iconic as the striking-looking SR-71 Blackbird spy plane, renowned for its ability to cruise at three times the speed of sound so as to outrun enemy surface-to-air missiles.But the Blackbird’s was actually an enlarg...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
Cheryl Ramalho/GettyWhen I set out to talk to traditional navigators in the Arctic, Australia, and Oceania, I had not anticipated how intricately the issue of climate change would be intertwined in these conversations. Again and again the indigenous...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
It’s one more example of how Brexit will lead to duplication and more bureaucracy as the U.K. will have to replicate the structures that until now the EU has taken care of. “We propose that the scope of a U.K. emissions trading system match that of...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
A team of health officers in Curacao plans to board the vessel to determine who aboard may have been exposed to a crew member diagnosed with measles and who aboard has previously been vaccinated against the highly contagious disease, the official sai...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
The Church Commissioners for England (CCE), the endowment fund of the Church of England, as well as New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, who manages the state's pension fund, also urged other shareholders to vote in favor of an independent cha...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
The first artifact -- a wooden mask -- was discovered in 2007 by a child who stumbled upon it while playing on the beach near his home in Quinhagak, a village in western Alaska that sits by the Bering Sea. Over the following months, hundreds of simi...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
After devastating the French Riviera in 2013, destroying Dhaka in 2015 and saving Tokyo in 2017, an international asteroid impact simulation ended Friday with its latest disaster -- New York in ruins. The exercise has become a regular event among th...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
Forget Game of Thrones, now we may have detected a real-life "battle" going on in outer space between a black hole and a neutron star.
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
It's been well over a week since news first broke of a serious malfunction with SpaceX's hotly anticipated Crew Dragon capsule. The spacecraft self-destructed during testing, and blurry video allegedly showing the failed test ending in an exp...