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Private Mission to the Hubble Space Telescope Brings Concerns

By: Rory Peterson, Journalist

The Hubble Space Telescope, which has been in Earth Orbit for over 3 decades now, is expected to deorbit in 2034, bringing a close to a major asset that has helped NASA and the world at-large understand the universe. In 2022, billionaire and major funder of the Polaris Program, Jared Isaacman, announced that he would fly to Hubble and perform maintenance on the Telescope, and it would be completely funded privately.

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Primordial Black holes

By: Brandon Tao, Journalist

Primordial Black holes are the smallest black holes to ever exist in the universe, they were smaller than a proton, & just as mysterious as dark matter. While unknown if they exist, their existence could answer many questions about how our universe evolved & came to be.

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Ancient lake on Mars

By: Patrick Verasin, Journalist

Nasa's Perseverance rover has found a ancient lake on Mars proving that mars used to have a large body of water. Mars used to be a habitable place like earth.

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China Lands on the Far Side of the Moon

By: Rory Peterson, Journalist

In the early hours of June 2, 2024, the Chinese Chang'e 6 lander touched down on the dark side of the Moon. This success marks the second time China has landed on the far side of the Moon, and the second time any country has landed there.

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Boeing’s Starliner Set To Launch Soon

By: Rory Peterson, Journalist

Boeing's Starliner is finally launching with crew to the International Space Station, after several delays and a failed mission. It will launch to the ISS on June 1st, with two crewmembers, Barry "Butch" Wilmore, and Suni Williams, both are former U.S. Navy test pilots.

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Venus Might Be As Volcanically Active As Earth.

By: William Bohoney, Journalist

A recent examination of data collected by NASA's Magellan spacecraft in the early 1990s has revealed evidence of recent lava flows on the planet's surface. Venus may be more geologically active than previously believed.

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How To Calculate a Star’s Age

By: William Bohoney, Journalist

Star birth, life, and death are all topics that scientists are rather well-versed in. But the tricky part is figuring out precisely when a star goes through each step of its life cycle.

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Rock from the explosion that formed the Moon is still lingering inside of the Earths mantle

By: William Bohoney, Journalist

Some scientists have proposed that these formations are the remains of tectonic plates that were pushed beneath others and then descended to the boundary between Earth's outer core and the mantle above. However, Yuan and his team present a different explanation.

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Mars Rovers: Pioneers of Exploration

By: Tiger Deng, Journalist

These robotic pioneers have not only traversed the Martian landscape but also reshaped our understanding of this distant world, revealing its secrets one discovery at a time.

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New Horizons: The Space Probe That Flew By Pluto

By: Tiger Deng, Journalist

New Horizons pushed the boundaries of space exploration and provided humanity with unprecedented insights into the distant reaches of our solar system.

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Lunar Laser Ranging Experiments

By: Tiger Deng, Journalist

Lunar Laser Ranging experiments offer insights into the moon's secrets with unparalleled accuracy.

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Quasi Stars

By: Brandon Tao, Journalist

Quasi-Stars are amongst the largest stars ever to of ever existed in the universe, they burned brighter than galaxies & dwarfed any stars that exist today or could ever exist in the future. But the strange part is that they were inhabited by a black hole, slowly devouring it from the inside out.

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