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SpaceX is sparring with a Texas oil company to drill for natural gas

SpaceX is locked in a legal fight with a Texas oil company for a plot of land it wants to use to drill for natural gas, according to public records. The 806-acre site in southern Texas sits near SpaceX's Starship facilities, a sprawling testing ground for its methane-fueled Raptor rocket ...

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Space - The Verge

SpaceX is sparring with a Texas oil company to drill for natural gas

Science Daily Astronomy

Astronomers discover first cloudless, Jupiter-like planet

Astronomers have detected the first Jupiter-like planet without clouds or haze in its observable atmosphere.

1 day ago

Science Daily Astronomy

Astronomers discover first cloudless, Jupiter-like planet

NASA Space Station

Station Boosts Orbit During Research and Spacewalk Preps

DNA, time perception and combustion investigations filled the research schedule aboard the International Space Station today. The Expedition 64 crew is also training for a pair of spacewalks set to start next week. Researchers are studying how microgravity affects a human's DNA and even time perception ...

2 days ago

NASA Space Station

Station Boosts Orbit During Research and Spacewalk Preps

Science Daily Astronomy

Solar system formation in two steps

Researchers have discovered that a two-step formation process of the early Solar System can explain the chronology and split in volatile and isotope content of the inner and outer Solar System.

2 days ago

Science Daily Astronomy

Solar system formation in two steps

Science Daily Astronomy

Saturn's tilt caused by its moons, researchers say

Scientists have just shown that the influence of Saturn's satellites can explain the tilt of the rotation axis of the gas giant. Their work also predicts that the tilt will increase even further over the next few billion years.

2 days ago

Science Daily Astronomy

Saturn's tilt caused by its moons, researchers say

Science Daily Astronomy

Oldest carbonates in the solar system: Flensburg meteorite

A meteorite that fell in northern Germany in 2019 contains carbonates which are among the oldest in the solar system; it also evidences the earliest presence of liquid water on a minute planet.

2 days ago

Science Daily Astronomy

Oldest carbonates in the solar system: Flensburg meteorite

Science Daily Astronomy

Saturn's moon Titan: Largest sea is 1,000-feet deep

Far below the gaseous atmospheric shroud on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, lies Kraken Mare, a sea of liquid methane. Astronomers have estimated that sea to be at least 1,000-feet deep near its center - enough room for a potential robotic submarine to explore.

2 days ago

Science Daily Astronomy

Saturn's moon Titan: Largest sea is 1,000-feet deep

Science Daily Astronomy

Much of Earth's nitrogen was locally sourced

Scientists show evidence that nitrogen acquired during Earth's formation came from both the inner and outer regions of the protoplanetary disk. The study has implications for signs of potential habitability of exoplanets.

2 days ago

Science Daily Astronomy

Much of Earth's nitrogen was locally sourced

NASA Mars News

6 Things to Know About NASA's Mars Helicopter on Its Way to Mars

Ingenuity, a technology experiment, is preparing to attempt the first powered, controlled flight on the Red Planet.

2 days ago

NASA Mars News

6 Things to Know About NASA's Mars Helicopter on Its Way to Mars