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The World’s First 3D-Printed Rocket Is About to Launch
An almost entirely 3D-printed rocket is ready to blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, then head for low Earth orbit.Scheduled for a three-hour launch…
Best Mac Cleaner software: Boost performance and disk space with a Mac cleaner app
1. MacPaw CleanMyMac X
A heavy hitter in the clean-sweep stakes is CleanMyMac X by MacPaw. At time of writing, it’s…
Tiny, Explosive ‘Jetlets’ Might Be Fueling the Solar Wind
Streaming out of the sun at a million miles an hour, the solar wind—a blistering plasma of electrons, protons, and ions flowing through space—is a…
What Will Ethical Space Exploration Look Like?
The moon is interesting because there are valuable resources people want, like the ice on the poles. But even though the moon hasn’t been mined yet, and it…
SpaceX Launches Crewed Mission to International Space Station: Details
Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX launched a four-person crew on a trip to the International Space Station early on Thursday, with a Russian cosmonaut and…
No, the James Webb Space Telescope Hasn’t Broken Cosmology
The cracks in cosmology were supposed to take a while to appear. But when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) opened its lens last spring, extremely…
How One Guy’s AI Tracked the Chinese Spy Balloon Across the US
Earlier this month, entrepreneur Corey Jaskolski pulled out a pen and drew his best guess at what the surveillance balloon shot down by a US jet would have…
On-Demand Rocket Launches Are Coming
Nine engines, 50,000 liters of fuel, 7 metric tons of thrust, and a velocity of nearly 8 kilometers a second are needed to launch a rocket into orbit. For…