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NASA finally has counted up all the asteroid samples returned by a spacecraft last fall — and it's double the rubble return goal. Officials reported Thursday that the Osiris-Rex spacecraft collected 121.6 grams (4.29 ounces) of dust and pebbles from asteroid Bennu. That's just over half a cup and the biggest cosmic haul ever from beyond the moon.It took NASA longer than expected to pry open the sample container because of stuck fasteners. The black, carbon-rich samples — the first ever collected from an asteroid by NASA…

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SpaceX just launched the most powerful rocket the world has ever seen – so powerful that it's a problem.The 40-story Starship mega-rocket flew toward space for the first time on April 20. At liftoff, the rocket's Super Heavy booster fired more than two dozen truck-sized Raptor engines at once, blasting the launchpad with up to 15 million pounds of force.That sent debris flying, rained soil and sand on a town five miles away, and left a large crater where the launchpad was.Rocks and other debris fly around remote cameras…

Weeks after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office in 2018, the combative leftist leader enraged international investors and Mexico’s business community by canceling the airport, which was already around one-third complete. During his campaign, López Obrador had railed against the project’s management for overspending and corruption. Then, in a post-election referendum launched by López Obrador’s party, the public had voted to scrap it (though critics claimed the results were unrepresentative, with just one in…

Rubble pile asteroid Itokawa. Image: JAXARubble pile asteroids are more common and durable than previously thought, according to new research. The scientists behind the study say this could pose a problem for planetary defense measures. But there may be reason for optimism, given recent insights gleaned from NASA’s successful DART mission to deflect an asteroid.Once just a hypothesis, rubble pile asteroids appear to be a common fixture of the solar system, as evidenced by missions to asteroids Itokawa, Ryugu, Bennu, and…

More than 5,000 foreigners with J-1 visas have been stranded in the U.S. since the pandemic struck. 13 of them, from India, Vietnam, China, the Philippines and Peru, described the same phenomenon as L. They’re suddenly jobless as a result of the economy’s collapse, unable to find new jobs.Read All More than 5,000 foreigners with J-1 visas have been stranded in the U.S. since the pandemic struck. 13 of them, from India, Vietnam, China, the Philippines and Peru, described the same phenomenon as L. They’re suddenly…

Throwing an excessive amount of blood, guts, and bodies into a horror movie can often enhance the story, but it can just as easily be nothing more than a gimmick engineered specifically for shock value and nothing else. Depending on who you ask, 2008’s The Ruins can quite easily be placed in either camp. Author Scott Smith penned the screenplay for the feature-length adaptation of his own novel, but the big screen version of the story didn’t quite win the same levels of acclaim as the book. Not only did The Ruins leave…

It’s rare for any movie to reduce an entire generational to a smoldering pile of emotional rubble, never mind a modestly-budgeted $17 million fantasy backed by the might of the Disney machine, but audiences of a certain age will never forget the first time they saw Bridge to Terabithia. Matters weren’t helped by a deliberately misleading marketing campaign that promised a fun-filled, whimsical time at the theater to watch two engaging young leads traverse a richly-detailed world populated full of magical creatures. But…