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SpaceX launch sends ice hunters to the moon

A SpaceX launch Wednesday night sent both a lander and an orbiter on their way to the moon, both on the hunt for ice.

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Private US company blasts off for second moon landing attempt

A US company is aiming for its second lunar touchdown after a lander carrying a suite of unique experiments successfully launched aboard a SpaceX rocket on Wednesday.

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Apollo 11 and UFO encounters: What Astronauts have to say

Apollo 11 has surely given us a lot to talk about ever since the historic moment a Saturn V rocket launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida, on July 16. ?Ufologists suggest that Apollo 11 traveled to the moon followed by numerous unidentified flying objects that were seen by the three […]

Physicists find unexpected crystals of electrons in new ultrathin material

MIT physicists report the unexpected discovery of electrons forming crystalline structures in a material only billionths of a meter thick. The work adds to a gold mine of discoveries originating from the material, which the same team discovered only about three years ago.

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Image: The Milky Way on the horizon

NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and long duration settings to capture this Jan. 29, 2025, image of the Milky Way appearing beyond Earth’s horizon.

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As expected, the threat from Asteroid 2024 YR4 has essentially dropped to zero

New information is pushing Asteroid 2024 YR4 off of our front pages. Initial estimates gave it a 2.8% chance of striking Earth in 2032. Now, the European Space Agency says the chance of it striking our planet is down to a paltry 0.001%.

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View the rare ‘planet parade’ this week and learn why it’s happening

The night sky offers us a variety of spectacles throughout the year, but for the remainder of the month, we have front-row seats to see—not one or two—but seven planets at once.

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Six things to know about NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer

Launching no earlier than Wednesday, Feb. 26, NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer will help resolve an enduring mystery: Where is the moon’s water? After sharing a ride on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 launch—part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative—the small satellite will take several months to arrive in lunar orbit. […]

How Schrödinger’s cat could help improve quantum computers

Quantum computers could be made with fewer overall components, thanks to technology inspired by Schrödinger’s cat. A team of researchers from Amazon Web Services has used “bosonic cat qubits,” to improve the ability of quantum computers to correct errors. The demonstration of quantum error correction requiring reduced hardware overheads is reported in a paper published […]

Study reveals how rogue planetary-mass objects form in young star clusters

A study published in Science Advances sheds new light on the mysterious origins of free-floating planetary-mass objects (PMOs)—celestial bodies with masses between stars and planets.

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Engineers achieve multiplexing entanglement in quantum network

Laying the groundwork for quantum communication systems of the future, engineers at Caltech have demonstrated the successful operation of a quantum network of two nodes, each containing multiple quantum bits, or qubits—the fundamental information-storing building blocks of quantum computers.

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Hofstadter’s butterfly: Quantum fractal patterns visualized

A team of scientists from Princeton University has measured the energies of electrons in a new class of quantum materials and has found them to follow a fractal pattern. Fractals are self-repeating patterns that occur on different length scales and can be seen in nature in a variety of settings, including snowflakes, ferns, and coastlines. […]

Video: Rookie Texas deputy, FTO crash into wrong-way driver

“I was ready for the worst-case scenario: to take the hit. And that’s exactly what I did,” said Harris County Deputy Louie Ayala, who had been on patrol for 32 days

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‘If they come at me, I’m coming at them’: BWC video shows ambush shooting that wounded 7 Texas officers

A Navy veteran called 911 threatening violence before opening fire on responding San Antonio Police officers, stating he had “high-power rifles and everything”

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BWC: Fla. officer locates man ‘ready to give up’ after falling from sailboat

The 55-year-old man struggled to stay afloat for at least 20 minutes before Port St. Lucie Officer Ryan Lodwick found him and deployed a life preserver

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