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NASA + Boeing Truss Wing Passenger Jet: 30% efficiency gain

Vox Feb. 2, '23

The new aircraft looks like a giant glider with long, skinny wings propped up by diagonal struts to reduce drag. It’s called the transonic truss-braced wing concept,...

Hubble telescope observes a hungry supermassive black hole devouring a star

The Verge Jan. 18, '23

...some stars suffer a more drastic fate as they are ripped apart and devoured by a hungry black hole. Such an event happens only a few times every 100,000 years in a...

JWST gets all the attention now, but Hubble's still at it! - TGR Editor

Another Earth-size exoplanet discovered in habitable zone of nearby star

The Verge Jan. 13, '23

The planet, named TOI 700 e, is one of four known planets orbiting a cool star approximately 100 light-years away. The planet was discovered by NASA’s planet-hunting...

NASA’s JWST discovers its first Earth-sized exoplanet

The Verge Jan. 12, '23

LHS 475 b is a rocky exoplanet roughly the same size as Earth that orbits very close to a small, dim star. And for the first time, researchers are able to study the...

NASA’s Orion Returns to Earth After Historic Moon Mission

NASA Dec. 19, '22

Splashdown is the final milestone of the Artemis I mission that began with a successful liftoff of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket Nov. 16, from Launch Pad 39B...