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NASA to train Indian astronauts for a week-long trip to ISS in 2024
04 December 2023NASA will train two Indian astronauts, one of whom will fly to the ISS late next year, a space agency official announced this week.
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Strange 'blob' circling Milky Way's central black hole is shooting powerful radiation at Earth every 76 minutes
04 December 2023Regular high-energy pulses of gamma-ray radiation emerging from around the Milky Way's central black hole may be coming from a blob of matter whipping around at 30% the speed of light.
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Near-Earth asteroids: Hunting and tracking upcoming encounters
04 December 2023Here we explore whether there are any upcoming asteroid encounters and how NASA and other space agencies actively monitor near-Earth asteroids that have the potential to hit our planet.
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Cosmonauts dock Russian Progress cargo ship to ISS on remote control after autopilot glitch
03 December 2023Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station took manual control of an incoming Progress 86 cargo ship on Sunday, Dec. 3, due to an autopilot issue.
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A 'runaway star' could save Earth from extinction a billion years from now. Here's how.
03 December 2023Earth will become too hot to handle in a billion years. There's a (very) remote chance a passing star could save us by knocking our planet back into the habitable zone.