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China’s Qingzhou Cargo Spacecraft: Smaller, Cheaper, Built for Tiangong
China's next-generation Qingzhou cargo spacecraft passed its 2025 orbital test flight and is scheduled for its operational debut in January 2027, designed to resupply the Tiangong space station more cheaply than its predecessor, the Tianzhou.
Wow Signal 1977: The 72-Second Burst That Still Defies Explanation
On August 15, 1977, astronomer Jerry Ehman circled six characters on a radio telescope printout and wrote 'Wow!' — a annotation that still defines humanity's search for extraterrestrial intelligence 47 years later.
CubeSat GRITSS Targets the Centimeter Errors That Send Spacecraft Off Course
A tiny, precisely characterized CubeSat built by NASA and ISISPACE is designed to expose the subtle errors in orbital reference frames — the invisible coordinate grids that every spacecraft depends on — errors small enough to ignore today but consequential enough to derail next-generation proximity operations and lunar missions.
Mobile Homes Heat Up Faster Than Site-Built Houses — and People Die for It
New research shows mobile homes heat up faster than site-built houses, exposing 22 million Americans — disproportionately older, lower-income, and rural — to life-threatening heat-related illness due to structural design flaws baked in at the factory.
What Dinosaurs Really Looked Like: Lips, Feathers, and Science’s Biggest Fixes
New fossil evidence and refined methods are overturning decades of iconic dinosaur imagery — from T. rex's perpetually bared teeth to questions about feather coverage and true body color. SUE's return to Liberty Science Center puts the science front and center.
Rare Piedmont Blue Ghost Firefly Found in Mecklenburg County Park
Environmental educators Skye Young and Megan Knight spotted a continuous pale blue-white glow drifting near the forest floor of a Mecklenburg County park — and confirmed it as Phausis christineae, a recently described Piedmont Blue Ghost firefly never before documented in the county.Load More
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