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Scientists Warn Of Atmospheric Risks As Musk’s Starlink Satellites Dominates The Skies
28 Nov 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Scientists are sounding the alarm as companies like SpaceX, led by Elon Musk, race to blanket the skies with tens of thousands of internet satellites.
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Something Fascinating Yet Ominous Happens To The Human Brain While In Space
25 Nov 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Scientists took a deep dive into the minds of astronauts who spent six months aboard the International Space Station—and the findings are equal parts fascinating and a touch unsettling.
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Friday Morning Spice
08 Nov 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
16-year-old Cape Town footballer lands trial at Chelsea, warning for how to handle fake Uber drivers, two people arrested in connection with Liam Payne’s death, and the problem with millennials raising pets not kids.
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Close Call In The Cosmos: Astronaut Recalls Near-Drowning Experience In Space
07 Oct 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Just an hour after the extravehicular activity started, Parmitano felt a strange sensation in his spacesuit.
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Minister Of Tourism Keen For Greater Focus On Astro-Tourism, Especially In The Western Cape
03 Oct 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
With the aim of elevating South Africa’s status on the global tourism stage, Minister of Tourism Patricia de Lille has unveiled an exciting new focus: astro-tourism.
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Throwback To That Embarrassing Time Irish News Thought A Dug Out Beach Hole Was A Meteor Strike [Video]
23 Sep 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
It’s been a year since Charlie and his friends dug a hole on Portmarnock beach and news outlets reported it as a space event but folks are still not over it.
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Earth Is About To Get A Second Moon, But Only For A Short While
19 Sep 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
While this may not be the first time we’ve seen something like this happen, it is still a fun phenomenon.
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NASA Announces Record-Breaking Number Of Humans In Space
17 Sep 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
It’s the largest group living in space concurrently in history.
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Inside Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Factory Crafting The Future of Reusable Rockets [Video]
09 Sep 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Kudos to this YouTuber for getting a tour with Bezos as his guide considering how closed-door this company has been.
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A NASA Spacecraft Collision Might Have Caused A Meteor Shower That Will Last For 100 Years
04 Sep 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
New research suggests fragments of Dimorphos will arrive in Earth and Mars’ neighbourhood within one to three decades,
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Monday Morning Spice
12 Aug 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
‘Sensational’ Paris Olympics come to an end, Deaf SA hails Mia Le Roux crowning as Miss South Africa, South Africa’s ‘overnight billionaire’, and Prince Harry urged to apologize for cocaine use.
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‘One Giant Pee For Mankind’ – Spacesuits That Recycle Astronauts’ Urine Are Now A Reality
15 Jul 2024 by Maya-Rose Torrao / No Comments
Sometimes the seemingly strange ideas are the best ones. To infini-pee and beyond!
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Astronauts Are Stuck In Space After Boeing’s Starliner Issues Delay Return ‘Indefinitely’
24 Jun 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The clock is ticking as the capsule can only stay docked at the station for 45 days.
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You Can Track Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster That Was Shot Into Space Six Years Ago
12 Jun 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Since it was launched out of the Earth’s atmosphere, Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster has travelled an unbelievable distance across space and time.
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Amidst A Growing Rivalry With The US, A Chinese Spacecraft Landed On The Moon
03 Jun 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
The mission is the sixth in the Chang’e moon exploration programme, which is named after a Chinese moon goddess.
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Maiden Human Test Flight Of Boeing’s Starliner Spacecraft Set For Tomorrow
31 May 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The mission follows a series of delays, including a scrubbed launch attempt on May 6 due to a “buzzing” valve aboard the Atlas V rocket and a subsequent helium leak in the Starliner spacecraft.
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You Could Take A Trip In A Space Elevator Sooner Than You Might Think
20 May 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
The space elevator cable, which will stretch through the Earth’s atmosphere, will carry materials and people using wheeled lifts called “Climber”.
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NASA Releases New Visualisation Of What It Would Be Like To Be Swallowed By A Black Hole [Video]
09 May 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
This new, immersive visualisation produced on a NASA supercomputer represents a scenario where a camera — a stand-in for a daring astronaut — enters the event horizon, sealing its fate.
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Scientists Say They Have Found New Evidence Of An Unknown Planet In Our Solar System
19 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
If Earth was the size of a marble, the edge of our solar system would be 11 kilometres away. That’s a lot of space to hide a planet.
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James Webb Telescope’s Newest Find Suggests We’ve Misunderstood The Universe
16 Apr 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
This might be the only time that a mistake in understanding is considered exciting.
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NASA Wants Human Guinea Pigs To Test Out Life On Mars
18 Mar 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
To understand what it might be like for humans to make it to the real Mars, and stick it out, behavioural ecologist Kelly Weinersmith gave her two cents.
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Watch The Space One Rocket Explode After Launching In Japan [Video]
14 Mar 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
The plan had been for Kairos – an ancient Greek word meaning “the right moment” – to put the satellite into orbit about 51 minutes after take-off.
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NASA Found A ‘Super-Earth’ That Might Possibly Be Habitable
07 Mar 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
First found in 2023, the exoplanet has a mass of 3.02 Earths and it takes 19.3 days to complete one orbit of its star.
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SA Retailer Game Sent A Can Of Baked Beans To Space On Leap Day [Video]
01 Mar 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Until Woolies launches a macaroon into orbit, Game is the only South African retailer to pull off a stunt like this.
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World’s Largest New Tourist Spacecraft Is ‘Swankier Than A Cocktail Lounge’
26 Feb 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Jeff Bezos’ rocket is going to need a bigger glans.
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How To Tune In Live To Tomorrow’s Attempted Moon Landing
22 Feb 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
If Thursday’s landing attempt goes according to plan, Intuitive Machines could become the first company to pull off a successful touchdown on the lunar surface.
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The South African Astronomical Observatory’s ‘Open Nights’ Should Be On Your Cape Town ‘To-Do List’
15 Feb 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
This is one of Cape Town’s best ‘uncommon’ experiences and one that the whole family will enjoy.
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Point Nemo – The Most Remote Place On Earth Where Spacecrafts Are Laid To Rest [Video]
01 Feb 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Sitting in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the ‘space graveyard’ is also known as the “pole of inaccessibility,” with the nearest patch of land 2,700km away.
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Ashes Of Star Trek Cast To Float Around Space Forever After Botched Moon Mission
11 Jan 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The giant rocket launched into space on the 8th of January and was headed towards the moon, but the mission unravelled very quickly and it has now been declared a huge failure.
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Scientists Have Been Left Baffled After A Seriously Powerful Beam Of Cosmic Energy Hit Earth
24 Nov 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
A beam of cosmic energy so powerful that it carried the equivalent of hundreds of billions of volts of electricity hit Earth in 2021 and scientists are mystified by this for a couple of reasons.
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