Alan Boyle
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SpaceX's Starship Rocket Does Its Job During First Orbital Flight (opens the original)
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SpaceX sent its Starship super-rocket on its first orbital flight — a shorter-than-planned test mission that put operational Starlink satellites into orbit for the first time. The 407-foot-tall rocket rose from its launch pad at SpaceX's Starbase complex on the Texas coast at 7:50 a.m. CT (12:50 p.m. UTC) today and completed nearly two orbits. This was the 14th flight in the Starship test program, but all previous flights had been suborbital. On its way up, one of the 33 methane-fueled Raptor en
Scientists Intrigued by a Surprising Result in the Search for Dark Matter (opens the original)
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Dark matter is the invisible stuff that accounts for roughly 85% of the mass in the universe, and for decades, physicists have been trying to figure out what it's made of. Now an experimental facility located nearly a mile below ground in South Dakota has recorded a single interaction between subatomic particles that doesn't match what's expected from normal matter. Has a dark-matter particle been detected at last? It's too early to say, but the anomaly is definitely attracting attention from da
Quantum Physicist Takes Aim at the Universe's Mysterious Arrow of Time (opens the original)
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Scientists and philosophers have argued over the nature of time since … well, since time immemorial. Does time flow unceasingly in one direction? Is our perception of time merely an illusion? Does each instant exist eternally, and are we just running through a sequence of instants like film in a movie projector? And if that’s the case, can we run the film backward? Could we even change what happens in the movie? In a new book called “On Time” — and in the latest episode of the Fiction Science po
Roman Rises! Five Things to Know About NASA's New Space Telescope (opens the original)
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NASA's newest eye on the sky, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, has begun its journey to unravel the secrets of dark matter, dark energy and Earthlike planets — months ahead of schedule. The 9-ton telescope rode to space today aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket that was launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:26 a.m. ET (11:26 UTC). The ascent went off without a hitch, setting up the telescope for a three-month cruise to a gravitational balance point known as Earth-sun L2
Lucky 13! Starship Deploys Starlink Satellites and Splashes Down Intact (opens the original)
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SpaceX's Starship super-rocket deployed operational next-generation Starlink satellites for the first time during its 13th flight test, which addressed snags that arose in the previous test. The 407-foot-tall, two-stage rocket rose from its Starbase launch pad in Texas at 5:51 p.m. CT today (10:51 p.m. UTC), with all 33 Raptor engines firing on the Super Heavy booster. On the way up, the rocket set a record for maximum dynamic pressure, also known as Max-Q. Minutes after liftoff, the Starship up
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