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Spain’s first private rocket successfully lifts off A Spanish company launched the country’s first private rocket on Saturday in a…
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Hubble captures starry Cetus constellation galaxy New and old stars alike twinkle in the dusty spiral arms of NGC 1087….
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Indian spacecraft heads towards center of solar system India’s sun-monitoring spacecraft has crossed a landmark point on its journey to…
NASA’s Perseverance captures dust-filled Martian whirlwind The lower portion of a Martian dust devil was captured moving along the western…
Testing, testing, testing: How researchers make sure the LSST Camera is the best it can be Building the world’s largest…
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Interstellar Sails: A New Analysis of Aerographite A material called aerographite offers options for solar sails that transcend the capabilities…
NASA’s Chandra rewinds story of great eruption of the 1840s Using snapshots taken over 20 years with NASA’s Chandra X-ray…
Historic wind tunnel facility testing NASA’s Mars ascent vehicle rocket The MAV (Mars Ascent Vehicle) team recently completed wind tunnel…
Lockheed Martin, University of Iowa demonstrate AI-commanded mission Artificial intelligence aids autonomous uncrewed aerial systems to coordinate with crewed tactical…
NASA’s first asteroid samples land on Earth after release from spacecraft NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted…
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Dream of the Russian tropics Imperial Russia had little access to the bountiful tropics that other empires enjoyed. So it…
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NASA team simulates a glimpse of our galaxy in gravitational waves Astronomers using simulated data have produced a glimpse of…
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NASA joins the still controversial search for UFOs NASA on Thursday officially joined the search for UFOs—but reflecting the stigma…
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One American, two Russians blast off in Russian capsule to International Space Station One American and two Russians blasted off…
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Webb snaps supersonic outflow of young star NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a high-resolution look at Herbig-Haro 211…
Mini space thruster that runs on water This tiny fingernail-length space thruster chip runs on the greenest propellant of all:…
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Probing rare hot plasma flows in the upper atmosphere Near Earth’s poles, observers of the night sky often behold aurorae,…
We are not empty The concept of the atomic void is one of the most repeated mistakes in popular science….
Billion-light-year-wide ‘bubble of galaxies’ discovered Astronomers have discovered the first “bubble of galaxies,” an almost unimaginably huge cosmic structure thought…
Predicting optimal personality profiles for a sustainable Mars settlement using Agent-Based Modeling Artist concept of a Mars settlement serviced by…
Scientists study distributed satellite cluster laser networking algorithm with double-layer Markov DRL architecture With the development of satellite networks, space-air-ground…
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Hubble dispels dust to see glittering globular cluster Terzan 12 The glittering globular cluster Terzan 12—a vast, tightly bound collection…
The Astronaut Center of China 90-d head-down bed rest: Overview, countermeasures, and effects When astronauts enter space, they are exposed…
NASA’s PACE spacecraft successfully completes key environmental test Consider it the “mother of all tests.” Go to Source Author: The…
Interstellar Path? Helicity’s Bid for In-Space Fusion Be aware that the Interstellar Research Group has made the videos shot at…
Vast bubble of galaxies discovered, given Hawaiian name A University of Hawaiʻi-led discovery of an immense bubble 820 million light…
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NASA spots new Moon crater, likely caused by crashed Russian probe NASA has spotted a small new crater on the…
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Pentagon unveils new website for reporting (and learning about) UFOs The Pentagon has opened up a new portal for professionals…
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NASA’s LRO observes crater likely from Luna 25 impact NASA’s LRO—the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter—spacecraft has imaged a new crater on…
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A swarm of swimming microbots could be deployed to Europa’s ocean Europa and other ocean worlds in our solar system…
How data from a NASA lunar orbiter is preparing Artemis astronauts When astronauts set off for a trip around the…
Rethinking Planet 9 Trans-Neptunian Objects, or TNOs, sound simple enough, the term being descriptive of objects moving beyond the orbit…
After Moon landing, India eyes the Sun Days after becoming the first nation to land a craft near the Moon’s…
New crew for the space station launches with 4 astronauts from 4 countries Four astronauts from four countries rocketed toward…
India first to land near moon south pole after Russia fails India became the first country to land a spacecraft…
NASA and SpaceX re-attempt launch of four crew to ISS NASA and SpaceX will try again on Saturday to send…
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The secret life of Druids The Greeks and Romans portrayed these elusive priests as bogeymen who bathed in their victims’…
Satellite built as low-cost way to reduce space junk reenters atmosphere years early SBUDNIC, built by an academically diverse team…
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Long wait nearly over for Psyche asteroid probe’s Space Coast launch Just off a tree-covered side road past businesses selling…
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A giant black hole destroys a massive star Astronomers have made a thorough forensic study of a star that was…
