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To Unlock Interstellar Travel, Scientists Are Building the World’s Most Powerful Laser Beam
To reach Earth’s closest star system, Alpha Centauri, scientists are building a laser-powered spacecraft. To pull off interstellar travel, a spacecraft must be very light; therefore, it’s essential to ...
Traveling the Cosmos With Carter Emmart, One Last Time
For nearly three decades he has created mesmerizing planetarium shows at the American Museum of Natural History. But other ...
NASA's Roman to peer into cosmic 'lenses' to better define dark matter
Dark matter affects how stars move within galaxies, how galaxies build up over time, and how everything in the universe is held together—but no existing tool has directly detected it. While dark ...
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Mapping space: Largest map of the universe announced
The multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS releases the largest map of the universe, going back to almost the beginning of time ...
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Final images of doomed Soviet spacecraft before it crashed back to Earth after 53 years in space
The spacecraft, called Kosmos 482 (also known as Cosmos 482), was launched in 1972 and once bound for Venus, but a malfunction meant it never left Earth's orbit. Because the lander was designed to ...
Kosmos 482: Out-of-control Russian spacecraft probably just fell to Earth, experts say
An out-of-control Russian spacecraft has probably plummeted to Earth, after 53 years stuck in orbit, experts say. In recent weeks, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 has been making an uncontrolled ...
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Lost Soviet-era Cosmos-482 returns to Earth after 53 years in space
But this week, a forgotten Soviet spacecraft finally ended its long wait. After more than five decades in orbit, Kosmos 482 has returned to Earth. Launched in March 1972, Kosmos 482 was bound for ...
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Soviet-era Cosmos-482 crashes over Indian Ocean after half a century in space
NEW DELHI: A Soviet spacecraft launched more than half a ... The probe, known as Kosmos 482 or Cosmos 482, re-entered Earth’s atmosphere in the early hours of Saturday, coming down about 560 ...
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Failed Soviet-era spacecraft returned to Earth on Saturday
The European Space Agency (ESA) confirmed this after noticing that Cosmos 482 was not at its expected orbital position over Germany an hour later. The USSR’s Venera (meaning “Venus” in ...
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Russian spacecraft crashes back to Earth after 50 years; experts warn, ‘Don't mess with it’
Should you panic? Old Soviet spacecraft to fall back to Earth after over 50 years; check the risk of deadly impact(AI image created with Canva) Cosmos 482, an old Soviet spacecraft, likely fell ...
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Soviet-era Cosmos-482 crashes over Indian Ocean after half a century in space
The probe, known as Kosmos 482 or Cosmos 482, re-entered Earth’s atmosphere in the early hours of Saturday, coming down about 560 kilometers west of India’s Middle Andaman Island, according to ...