- NASA trims Boeing Starliner contract, makes last two missions optional Reuters
- NASA confirms that Starliner’s next mission will be cargo only Ars Technica
- Boeing Starliner Missions Cut After Botched Astronaut Flight Bloomberg.com
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NASA trims Boeing Starliner contract, makes last two missions optional – Reuters
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Global Partnership Advances Earth Observation Frontiers
A University of Houston scientist has teamed with international partners to examine how Antarctica’s massive glaciers are shifting and how that could predict sea level changes. Their latest collaboration offers the most precise mapping…
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James Webb telescope may have discovered the earliest, most distant supermassive black hole ever seen
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may have discovered the most distant supermassive black hole ever seen. The enormous object, hosted by the galaxy GHZ2, is so far away that astronomers see it as it was just 350 million…
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Geoscientists Find Explanation for Mysterious Structures within Earth’s Mantle
For decades, scientists have been baffled by two enormous structures buried deep inside Earth. These anomalies may retain geochemical signatures distinct from the surrounding mantle. Yet, their origin remains enigmatic. Rutgers University…
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Boeing Starliner Missions Cut After Botched Astronaut Flight
NASA cut the planned missions of Boeing Co.’s Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station from six to four, following a highly publicized botched test flight last year and as the orbiting lab heads for retirement by the end of the…
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Europe launches bold plan to harness twisting beams of light
A new Doctoral Network led by Tampere University has received €4.4 million from the European Union’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) program. Through the High-Power Optical Vortices (HiPOVor) initiative, 15 doctoral researchers will be…
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Exposed Antarctic peaks could boost ocean’s carbon absorption

New research led by polar scientists at Northumbria University has uncovered a surprising source of long-term climate hope hidden within East Antarctica’s changing landscape….
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Mars Was Habitable Longer Than We Thought, New Study Suggests : ScienceAlert
It is a scientific consensus that water once flowed on Mars, and that it had a denser atmosphere, meaning that it was once habitable.
Unfortunately, roughly 4.2 to 3.7 billion years ago, Mars’ rivers, lakes, and global ocean began to…
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NASA, NOAA Rank 2025 Ozone Hole as 5th Smallest Since 1992
While continental in scale, the ozone hole over the Antarctic was small in 2025 compared to previous years and remains on track to recover later this century, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported. The…
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Watch fractured comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) race away from the sun in free livestream on Nov. 24
Comet C/2025 K1 ATLAS: the broken comet – online observation (25 Nov. 2025). – YouTube
Watch OnTune in on Nov. 24 to watch live telescopic views of the fractured comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), which recently broke into multiple large pieces…
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