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Polaris Dawn: Billionaire astronaut and crew return to Earth after first private spacewalk | World News
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A billionaire astronaut and his crew have returned to Earth after taking part in the first private spacewalk. Polaris Dawn, operated by SpaceX on behalf of billionaire Jared Isaacman, splashed down at 8.37am today in the Gulf of Mexico near Florida’s Dry Tortugas in the predawn darkness. Carrying four private citizens, including SpaceX engineers Anna…
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Mega-tsunami caused Earth to vibrate for nine days, study shows | Climate News
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A mega-tsunami caused by a landslide in Greenland caused the Earth to vibrate for nine days, a new study has shown. The collapse of a 1.2km-high (0.7 miles) mountain peak last September caused water in the fjord below to splash back and forth, causing vibrations right through to the Earth’s crust, researchers found. It was…
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Two astronauts left behind on ISS as troubled Boeing Starliner capsule lands on Earth empty | Science & Tech News
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Boeing’s Starliner capsule, which has been plagued with problems, has returned to Earth, leaving two astronauts behind on the International Space Station (ISS). The spacecraft – running on autopilot – parachuted into the New Mexico desert six hours after setting out. Cameras caught the capsule as a white streak coming in for the touchdown at…
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Boeing’s faulty Starliner spacecraft heading back to Earth – leaving astronauts in orbit | Science & Tech News
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The Starliner space capsule which developed faults as it transported two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) is to be flown back to Earth unmanned on Friday. It should be taking test pilots Sunita “Suni” Williams and Commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore back to Earth, but the pair are staying on the ISS instead…
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Juice spacecraft to pass over Earth in ‘world first’ fly-by | Science & Tech News
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The European Space Agency’s Juice craft will return to Earth tonight, taking part in a “world first” fly-by. Flight controllers will guide the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice), with UK-made scientific instruments on board, past the moon and then Earth. The risky manoeuvre will take Juice on a shortcut to Jupiter via Venus, using the…
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NASA says it has still not decided how to bring two stuck astronauts back to Earth | Science & Tech News
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NASA has said it has still not decided how to bring home two astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS) after their spacecraft developed faults on their outward voyage. In a news conference on Wednesday, the space agency said Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who arrived at the ISS in June expecting to be there…
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Complex life on Earth began around 1.5 billion years earlier than thought, study claims | UK News
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Complex life on Earth began around 1.5 billion years earlier than thought, according to a new study. Scientists were broadly of the view that animals first emerged on Earth 635 million years ago, but the latest study, led by a research team at Cardiff University, has found signs of a much earlier ecosystem. The ecosystem…
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Asteroid to zoom past Earth in 2029 – and a spacecraft will follow it | Science & Tech News
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A massive asteroid will skim past Earth in 2019 in an “extremely rare natural phenomenon” – and a spacecraft will be sent to track it. It’s hoped the findings from the European Space Agency (ESA) mission will help defend our planet from any similar objects on a collision course in the future. The asteroid 99942…
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Boeing had enough problems on Earth – now it has them in orbit too | Science & Tech News
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There are worse places to suffer a travel delay than on the International Space Station. At least astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams get to gaze at the planet rotating beneath them as they wait for engineers to work out what’s gone wrong with their spacecraft’s thrusters so they can fly home. In a news…
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Asteroid travelling at more than 40,000mph to reach its closest point to Earth today | Science & Tech News
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An asteroid is whipping past Earth today, travelling at more than 40,000 miles per hour. NASA says the asteroid will pass just 936,000 miles away from Earth, a relatively close-shave in space terms. It’s the closest the asteroid, known as 2024 MT-1, will come to the planet during its orbit around the sun – however,…