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"It replaces expertise with political appointees, globally decouples the U.S. and completely guts our scientific ecosystem."
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NASA has ended its attempts to reconnect with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft and...
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Neptune is definitely the odd one out of the gas giants. It’s tilted at a strange angle,...
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Astronaut captures snake-like auroras from a SpaceX Dragon | Space photo of the day for June 9, 2026
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir captured a breathtaking view of auroras on Earth from orbit while sheltering with...
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Celestron Nature DX ED 10x42mm Roof Binoculars CelestronTorrance, California Celestron Nature DX ED 10x42mm Roof Binoculars feature...
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The director of 'Close Encounters' and 'ET', an original story, 'X-Files'-style conspiracy theories… 'Disclosure Day' is a...
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Astronomers have identified a possible new example of one of the universe’s strangest galaxy types: galaxies that...
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As Steven Spielberg's alien conspiracy thriller "Disclosure Day" heads to theaters, Space.com talks to the astronomer who...
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In early 1987, a team led by MIT’s Jacqueline Hewitt was imaging radio-emitting objects with the Very...
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The livestream begins at 3:30 p.m. (1930 GMT) on June 9.
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. June 8: Venus and...
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Jeffrey Horne, taken from Nashville, Tennessee The Rosette Nebula (NGC 2237–9) is a vast star-forming complex about...
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A genomic study has reshaped our understanding of the evolutionary history of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus), revealing...
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The Federal Communications Commission has waived a requirement for Amazon to launch half of its satellite broadband...
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Since NASA’s Artemis II crew members safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on April 10 after...
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Teams working on NASA’s INCUS (Investigation of Convective Updrafts) mission, the first space-based survey of the dynamics...
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Asteroids and planetesimals regularly bombarded Earth between about 4.6 billion and 3.5 billion years ago, during the...
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Almost a quarter of all freshwater species are threatened with extinction. The removal of human-made barriers from...
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As nations prepare to compete on the global stage this summer, researchers at the University of Reading...
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NASA’s plans to return astronauts to the moon through the Artemis program and ultimately send humans to...