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[ad_1] JOHANNESBURG – The European Space Agency (ESA) has finalized a € 86 million ($ 104 million) contract with Swiss start-up ClearSpace SA to carry out the world’s first space debris clearance mission. ClearSpace-1 represents the first space debris removal that is not a demonstration mission, ESA Director General Jan Wörner told a December 1 … Read more

[ad_1] There are 60 species of flightless birds on Earth today, but a new study finds there would be at least four times as many if it weren’t for human influences. These findings were discovered by a team at the University College of London who compiled a list of all bird species known to have … Read more

[ad_1] Content of the article Experts believe that a large and explosive sound reported Wednesday afternoon over Ontario and New York State was likely caused by a meteor. According to CityNews, some residents of Mississauga, Bowmanville, Brooklin and Hamilton have reported seeing a fireball in the sky. In Onondaga County, New York, there were reports … Read more

[ad_1] Seeing what is going on inside of us is useful for many aspects of modern medicine. But how to do this without slicing and dicing through barriers like flesh and bones to observe intact living tissue, like our brains, is a tricky thing to do. Thick, inconsistent structures like bone scatter light in unpredictable … Read more

[ad_1] BEIJING (AP) – China said on Thursday that its latest lunar probe had finished taking samples from the moon’s surface and sealing them in the spacecraft for return to Earth, the first time such a mission had been attempted by a country for more than 40 years. The Chang’e 5, the third Chinese probe … Read more

[ad_1] Several people in Michigan offered first-hand reports of a noon fireball and the accompanying “boom” that were seen and felt from Ontario to Virginia on Wednesday. The noon show was likely a disintegrating meteor, according to the Associated Press. Nearly 100 witness reports of a fireball had arrived at the American Meteor Society based … Read more

[ad_1] The astronomy calendar for 2020 has been filled with celestial events, with supermoons, eclipses, rare Blue Moons, meteor showers, and even UFO-like satellite streams. As we move into the last month of the year, December still has a few goodies in store for skygazers. This December will see two meteor showers, a winter solstice, … Read more

[ad_1] Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with SpaceX’s 21st Dragon operational refueling flight to the International Space Station. This is the first flight of SpaceX’s upgraded Cargo Dragon vehicle. Text updates will automatically appear below; it is not necessary to reload the page. follow us … Read more

[ad_1] For years now, biologists have been practicing a kind of time travel. You can take a patch of human skin and, with the right genetic adjustment, set back its internal clock until it becomes its embryonic self, stripped of its identity and ready to become just about any part of it. human body. Since … Read more