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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 114 —Starliners & Starships

On Episode 114 of This Week In Space, Rod and Tariq talk about the launches of Boeing's Starliner and SpaceX's Starship.

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At long last: Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket set to debut on July 9

Europe's new Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket is set to launch for the first time on July 9 after a series of delays.

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NASA wants new ideas for its troubled Mars Sample Return mission

NASA's Mars Sample Return mission has faced quite a few hurdles, and the agency has selected ten studies to try and find more affordable and quicker means of going about the project.

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Massive 'El Gordo' galaxy cluster suggests dark matter smashes into itself

El Gordo is a massive collection of colliding galaxies 7 billion light-years away. Its odd behavior could suggest dark matter interacts with itself.

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'Sudden, brief, and unexpected:' dearMoon crew laments cancellation of private SpaceX Starship moon mission

Crew members selected for a planned flight around the moon funded by Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa shared public feelings of disappointment after the mission's cancellation.

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Scientists find slowest spinning 'radio neutron star' — it breaks all the dead-star rules

Taking almost a full hour to rotate rather than fractions of a second, ASKAP J1935+2148 is the slowest spinning radio-blasting neutron star ever seen.

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South Korea creates new KASA space agency, sets sights on the moon and Mars

South Korea has announced the creation of a new space agency and is aiming to land its own spacecraft on the moon and Mars in the coming decades.

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Doctor Who 'Dot and Bubble': Why are space slugs eating influencers in Finetime?

In the fifth episode of "Doctor Who," called"'Dot and Bubble," a city has been invaded by giant, human-eating space slugs, and they seem to have a plan.

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US military test launches 2 unarmed intercontinental ballistic missiles in 2 days

The United States Air Force and U.S. Space Force conducted two routine test launches of unarmed intercontinental ballistic missiles this week from Vandenberg Space Force Base.

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Weird magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune may come from strange space chemistry

An exotic molecule stabilized by intense pressure found in the icy depths of Neptune and Uranus could help explain a long-standing mystery.

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Jupiter's raging gas cyclones may actually mirror Earth's oceans. Here's how

Jupiter and Earth's oceans have more in common than you might think.

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SpaceX launching 22 Starlink satellites from Florida tonight

SpaceX plans to launch yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida's Space Coast tonight (June 7).

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Virgin Galactic eyes June 8 for final commercial spaceflight on VSS Unity spaceplane

Virgin Galactic aims to launch its seventh commercial spaceflight mission on June 8 during the final flight of its VSS Unity suborbital spaceplane.

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The 'hole' on Mars making headlines could be crucial to Red Planet exploration

Similar craters are found on Earth and the Moon, and are the product of volcanic, tectonic or even fluvial activity.

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Thruster glitches and helium leaks can't stop Boeing's Starliner astronaut test flight — but why are they happening?

Boeing's Starliner Crew Flight Test faced down thruster glitches and helium leaks to reach the International Space Station on June 6. Why all the glitches and is NASA worried?

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Fly over the scarred canyons of Mars in this breathtaking video from European spacecraft

ESA's Mars Express orbiter surveyed the vast Nili Fossae trenches, which formed following a massive impact billions of years ago, when water flowed over the Martian surface.

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Chang'e 6 probe's far-side moon samples enter return-to-Earth module in lunar orbit, China says

The two spacecraft of the Chang'e 6 mission met and docked in orbit over the moon on Thursday (June 6) to transfer samples the moon's far side. They'll now be returned to Earth.

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More people Googled 'northern lights' in May 2024 than in any other month in history

More people Googled 'northern lights' in May 2024 than in any other month in Google's history. Here we explore the science behind the search trends and uncover why May saw such a spike in sun-related searches.

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SpaceX Starship launches nail-biting Flight 4 test of the world's most powerful rocket (video, photos)

SpaceX launched its giant Starship rocket for the fourth time ever this morning (June 6) in a dramatic and nail-biting liftoff.

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Everything we know about 'Destiny 2: The Final Shape'

The Light and Darkness saga of Destiny 2, which contains the first ten years of Destiny, is ending with The Final Shape. This is everything we know about it.

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New moon of June 2024 tonight lets Saturn, Mars and Jupiter shine

The dark skies of the new moon of June 2024 will allow some of the naked eye planets to stand out late in the night after midnight.

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