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Starship has Exploded Yet Again

By: Rory Peterson, Journalist
On Tuesday, May 27, at just after 7:30 P.M. Eastern Time, Starship Flight 9 lifted off the launchpad in Starbase, Texas. The launch was a first for Starship, since it was the first time SpaceX were going to refly a Super Heavy booster, using the one flown on Flight 7. As part of reflying the booster, SpaceX put the booster through a battery of tests, intending to test how it would respond to a variety of situations. As well as reflying a booster, SpaceX hoped to deploy a set of Starlink simulators using the Ship upper stage.
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French Studies Show That Life May Have Begun On Interstellar Ice and Not Water

By: Aidan Pham, Journalist
A recent study from France found that the chemical basis for life can form in interstellar ice, expanding on a cutting edge area of research into the origins of life. Electrical energy may also have sparked the beginnings of life on Earth billions of years ago. Earth is around 4.5 billion years old, and the oldest direct fossil evidence of ancient life are stromatolites.
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