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James Webb Could Finally Find Alien Life In 2025

By: Daniel Rodriguez, Journalist

The James Webb telescope has found another solar system called "TRAPPIST-1". This solar system contains seven earth-sized exoplanets that are habitable.

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Hawking Radiation That May Be Taking Away Black Holes That Could Reveal New Physics

By: Miles Kowalewski, Journilist

In the enigmatic realm of theoretical physics, Stephen Hawking's groundbreaking concept of Hawking radiation represents a profound challenge to our understanding of black holes, proposing a radical mechanism by which these cosmic behemoths might gradually disintegrate over incomprehensibly long timescales.

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Why is China’s Space Program Such a Failure?

By: Kawa Gyatso, Journalist

China's space program has achieved significant milestones, including developing its own space station and successfully landing a rover on Mars. However, many are unaware of the risks involved.

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Didymos & Dimorphos

By: Josslyn Wellck, Journalist

Asteroid Didymos and its small moonlet Dimorphos make up a binary asteroid system. The small moon (Dimorphos) orbits the larger body (Didymos). The two asteroids are not a threat to Earth, but since they pass pretty close to Earth, they were chosen as the target for NASA’s DART mission (Double Asteroid Redirection Test).

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Artemis vs. Apollo Program

By: Vaibhav Saravanan, Journalist

The Artemis and Apollo programs are both space programs meant to send humans to the moon. In this article I will be comparing and contrasting the Artemis and Apollo program.

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Project “Sundial”

By: Kawa Gyatso, Journalist

The concept of completely initiating human civilization to a halt, gave rise to Project Sundial, a weapon intended to function as a "backyard bomb" capable of annihilating the entire planet as we know it.

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Spaceships

By: Ian Ragsdale, Journalist

How spaceships work

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Mining the Stars

By: Preston Wichert, Journalist

What is asteroid mining? Asteroid mining is when you travel to deep space then you harvest the valuable materials on the asteroid that are worth lots of money.

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Splashdown

By: Maximiliano Quinteros, Journalist

What is SpaceX Crew 8 splashdown? Space X's Crew-8 is preparing to return to Earth this Friday with a parachute-assisted splashdown after spending around seven months in space. The crew will depend...

The New SpaceX Starship Launch

By: Laith Kassim, Journalist

On October 13th, 2024, SpaceX launched the fifth test flight of the Starship. Towering at almost 400 feet tall, Starship is made of two components: the Starship spacecraft and the Super Heavy rocket. The Super Heavy rocket is about 230 feet tall, while the Starship rocket is about 160 feet tall. The purpose of Starship is to soon carry crew and cargo to the Moon, and eventually Mars.

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Neil Armstrong, Soldier, Engineer, Astronaut

By: Zouli Alexandratos, Journalist

Neil Armstrong landed on the moon on 7/20/69, saying the quote "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind". He was the first person to ever step foot on the moon.

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NASA’S IMAP

By: Hamidou Tall, Journalist

What is IMAP? IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) will help solve a major question about space: how cosmic rays are filtered by the heliosphere. These particles may pose a risk to astronauts,...