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November 14, 2024

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UFO whistleblowers tell Congress 'we are not alone' (video)

(U.S. Department of Defense)

Like previous congressional UFO hearings, yesterday's event featured testimony from current U.S. military personnel who claim the American government has for decades hidden evidence of advanced technologies and otherworldly visitors from the public. While such claims are nothing new, what is noteworthy about the hearing are the pedigrees of some of the whistleblowers who testified, including a former U.S. counterintelligence officer, a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral and a former NASA associate administrator. All of them stressed the need for more government transparency, less stigma about the UFO topic and new policies to bring UAP data out of the "black" classified world and into the public domain.

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Space Quiz! How many neutrinos are passing through your body at any given moment?

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Blue Origin stacks New Glenn rocket ahead of 1st launch

(Blue Origin)

New Glenn is expected to make its maiden flight sometime in November, taking off from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, which is next door to KSC. The flight will carry one of the company's new Blue Ring spacecraft on a National Security Space Launch certification flight known as DarkSky-1 and sponsored by the Defense Innovation Unit.

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Put Interest On Ice Until Nearly 2026

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Skywatching

Final supermoon of 2024 rises Nov. 15: The Full Beaver Moon

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The last of four consecutive supermoons in 2024 rises this week. November's Full Beaver Moon will rise on Friday (Nov. 15), just in time for those willing to stay up late for some weekend skywatching. The moment of full moon occurs at 4:28 p.m. EST (2128 GMT) on Friday, but the moon will appear full for most observers for a day or two prior to the moment of exact fullness.

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Spaceflight

Astronauts still in good health, NASA flight surgeon says

(NASA)

"All NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station are in good health," Dr. J.D. Polk, chief health and medical officer at NASA Headquarters in Washington, told reporters in an emailed statement on Nov. 13. "It's unfortunate that rumors persist otherwise."

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Science & Astronomy

Could a supernova ever destroy Earth?

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Are there any stars that pose a threat to us? To estimate how close a supernova would have to be to cause serious damage to Earth, we must look at a supernova's destructive capabilities.

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SpaceX

SpaceX rolls Starship to the pad ahead of Nov. 18 launch

(SpaceX)

SpaceX is gearing up for the sixth test flight of its Starship megarocket, which is now less than a week away. Elon Musk's company has rolled the sixth Starship vehicle's 165-foot-tall (50-meter-tall) upper stage out to the launch pad at its Starbase site in South Texas for testing ahead of the planned Nov. 18 liftoff.

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Technology

Artemis 2 Orion capsule goes into altitude chamber

(Lockheed Martin/David Wellendorf)

A moon spacecraft is one step closer to flying with humans on board in 2025. The Orion spacecraft, which will carry four astronauts around the moon on the Artemis 2 mission, recently reentered an altitude chamber at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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