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Australia’s Extinct Giant Eagle Was Big Enough to Snatch Koalas From Trees
The year is 1959. Speleologists descend a 17-metre shaft to explore the depths of Mairs Cave in the southern Flinders Ranges. Some 55 metres into the main chamber, they find fossils scattered throughout a boulder pile. Among these fossils are a claw and part of a wing bone that appear to have come from a…
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RIP AIM: NASA Probe Retires From Observing Clouds at the Edge of Space
For the past 15 years, a small NASA spacecraft has explored the edge of space, probing the elusive clouds that form in Earth’s mesosphere. But the spacecraft is no longer operating the way it used to, forcing the team to end its mission.
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Everything We Learned From the NASA-Axiom Moon Suit Unveiling
Axiom Space revealed its new Moon suit yesterday during an event held at NASA’s Space Centre Houston. It’s the first Moon-specific suit since the Apollo era and a key component of NASA’s Artemis program, which seeks to return humans to the Moon later this decade. Here’s what we learned about the new suit, dubbed AxEMU.
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Sydney Uni Is on the Hunt for Aliens
USyd is looking for aliens, starting with exoplanets in goldilocks zones of our neighbouring star system, Alpha Centauri.