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What's next for Boeing Starliner after its 1st crew flight test?

Astronauts will board a Boeing Starliner spacecraft for the 1st ISS test flight no earlier than May 6. Boeing says it's already working on first operational mission Starliner-1 for 2025.

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What time is Boeing's 1st Starliner astronaut launch for NASA on June 5?

Boeing is ready to launch its first-ever Starliner astronaut mission for NASA on June 5. Here's what to know on when it will launch.

Space

Gingger Shankar and Charlotte Qamaniq merge cultures in an ode to nature

Indian-American violinist Gingger Shankar and Inuit throat singer Charlotte Qamaniq unite cultures in a nature-inspired song released worldwide on Earth Day.

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Morning Digest | SC to consider interim bail for Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal due to polls; India press freedom score falls, says Reporters sans Frontieres, and more

The Hindu Morning Digest gives a select list of stories to start the day. Read the top news today on May 4, 2024

The Hindu

Virgin Galactic to launch 7th commercial spaceflight on June 8

Virgin Galactic is targeting June 8 for its seventh commercial spaceflight, a suborbital jaunt called, fittingly enough, Galactic 07.

Space

China launches Chang'e 6 sample-return mission to moon's far side

China's launched its Chang'e 6 sample-return mission, which will haul dirt and rocks home from the mysterious lunar far side.

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Long ago, a lake on Mars might have been sprawling with microbes

The presence of manganese oxide on Mars has positive implications in the search for life beyond Earth.

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China's Chang'e-6 Mission To Return Moon Samples To Earth

China's Chang’e-6 mission to explore the moon's far side, focusing on the South Pole-Aitken basin for geological insights and potential scientific discoveries.

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Video of sun’s surface shows solar rain, eruptions and coronal moss

Ethereal scenes of flowing super-heated material may help explain why atmosphere is hotter than surface

The Guardian - UK

Antarctic ice hole the size of Switzerland keeps cracking open. Now scientists finally know why.

The Maud Rise polynya has been sporadically opening up in Antarctica's ice since at least the 1970s. Now climatologists finally know why.

LiveScience

Did the James Webb Space Telescope really find life beyond Earth? Scientists aren't so sure

Despite excitement last year, the James Webb Space Telescope probably hasn't detected life on a distant super-Earth exoplanet with life signs detected on potential ocean world K2-18 b likely premature.

Space

Shaky future of Mars sample return

Mars Sample Return has blown a hole in NASA’s budget, which threatens other missions that need funding

Salon

Eta Aquarid meteor shower peak could spawn over 100 'shooting stars' per hour this weekend

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks on May 5, and this year looks favorable for a good light show put on by bits of Halley's Comet as they burn up in Earth's atmosphere.

Space

China’s Chang’e-6 mission to moon’s dark side ...Tech & Science Daily podcast

Plus! Immune cell hope for ‘custom cancer treatment’

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Legend of Zelda movie director promises that he will go "to the ends of the Earth" to ensure the movie is great

Wes Ball says The Legend of Zelda franchise is "one of the most important things ever" in his life

Space

Citizen scientists find remarkable exoplanet, name it after Harry Potter character

Citizen scientists have spotted a truly remarkable planet in a binary system's habitable zone. They gave a Harry Potter-inspired nickname.

Space

China launches Chang'e 6 sample-return mission to moon's far side (video)

China continued its run of moon missions today (May 3), launching its bold Chang'e 6 sample-return effort to the lunar far side.

Space

2 colossal solar flares explode from the sun and Earth is in the firing line (video)

Newly emerged sunspot fires off X-class and an M-class solar flares in relatively quick succession. Watch the striking video and read about the possible effects here.

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Cave of Crystals: The deadly cavern in Mexico dubbed 'the Sistine Chapel of crystals'

The Cave of Crystals in Chihuahua, Mexico, is buried almost 1,000 feet (300 meters) beneath Earth's surface and contains giant gypsum crystal beams that are up to 37 feet (11 m) long.

Al Jazeera

China launches Chang’e-6 probe to study dark side of the moon

Unprecedented 53-day mission aims to retrieve lunar rocks and soil from far side that never faces Earth.

LiveScience

It's the best time of year to spot Mercury. Here's how to find it.

Mercury is about to reach its "greatest elongation west" of the sun, meaning stargazers will have their best view of the "swift planet" all year. Here's how to see it.

The Hindu

China launches lunar probe mission to collect samples for first time from far side of moon

China launches Chang'e-6 lunar probe mission to collect samples from the far side of the moon for scientific studies

International Business Times

China Launches First Probe To Collect Samples From Far Side Of Moon

A rocket carrying the Chang'e-6 lunar probe blasted off from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre in southern China's Hainan province just before 5:30 pm (0930 GMT), AFP journalists near the site said.

LiveScience

No, the James Webb Space Telescope probably didn't detect signs of alien life — but it soon could

The James Webb Space Telescope's possible detection of biological chemicals on the exoplanet K2-18b may just have been methane gas, a new study cautions. Planned follow-up observations could solve the mystery for good.

International Business Times

China To Launch First Probe To Return Samples From Moon's Far Side

China is set Friday to launch a probe to collect samples from the far side of the Moon, a world first as Beijing pushes ahead with an ambitious programme that aims to send a crewed lunar mission by 2030.

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