Jared Isaacman, Trump’s pick for NASA chief, to get Senate confirmation hearing on April 9

Billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, the Trump administration’s pick to lead NASA, will appear before a Senate committee on April 9 for a confirmation hearing on whether he will be the next leader of the U.S. space program. Jared Isaacman, who made his billions as CEO of the Shift4 payment processing firm and has flown to […]

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‘Largest’ Rare Earth Metals Deposit Discovered in Kazakhstan : ScienceAlert

Kazakhstan discovered its largest deposit of rare earth metals, containing around one million tonnes of the elements that are seen as vital for the future economy, the Central Asian country said Wednesday. Rare earths comprise 17 raw materials that are essential for the green energy transition and highly sought by the likes of China, Russia, […]

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SpinLaunch wants to send 250 broadband ‘microsatellites’ to orbit with a single launch

SpinLaunch has unveiled its plans for a new broadband satellite constellation known as Meridian Space. The Meridian Space constellation will consist of small “microsatellites” that can be sent to low-Earth orbit with as many as 250 spacecraft on a single launch vehicle, according to SpinLaunch. The company received $12M in funding from Kongsberg NanoAvionics to […]

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LHC Discovery Could Explain How Universe Avoided Obliteration : ScienceAlert

Matter and antimatter should have completely wiped each other out eons ago, leaving the Universe a very empty place. Obviously that didn’t happen. Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may have uncovered new clues as to how we avoided this apocalypse, hinting at a surprising difference in the decays of particles called baryons and […]

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Triassic amphibians the size of alligators perished in mass die-off in Wyoming, puzzling ‘bone bed’ reveals

Around 230 million years ago, at least 19 alligator-size amphibians expired together on an ancient floodplain in what is now Wyoming. The animals’ fossilized remains, uncovered across four excavations between 2014 and 2019, have been relatively undisturbed since then and feature preserved delicate small bones and parts of the creatures’ overall skeletal structure. The well-preserved […]

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‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Season 3 teaser trailer promises more gimmicky hijinks in the final frontier (video)

Technically, this isn’t the first footage shown by Paramount+ for the third season of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.” That label goes to a fun San Diego Comic-Con scene of Pike and crew physically transforming into Vulcans that we shared with you back in July of last year. But this latest sneak peek at the […]

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‘City-Killer’ Asteroid Impact Still a Possibility (Just Not With Earth) : ScienceAlert

Just when you thought you could relax about putative ‘city killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4, back it comes, with a vengeance. Don’t worry – it’s still not a danger to Earth for the time being. When we last checked in, odds of a collision between 2024 YR4 and Earth were at just 0.001 percent, far too […]

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NASA’s new SPHEREx space telescope takes its 1st cosmic images: ‘The instrument team nailed it’

You know how the James Webb Space Telescope is said to be revolutionizing astronomy because it can study wavelengths hidden to human eyes? Well, those wavelengths lie in the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum — and on April 1, NASA announced its brand new infrared space telescope, SPHEREx, has officially opened its eyes to […]

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