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To be a planet, NASA says an object must be big enough that its gravity has cleared...
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SpaceX got within 40 seconds of launching the first flight of a taller, more powerful version of...
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Chinese-born cryptocurrency investor Chun Wang has become the latest deep-pocketed space enthusiast to set his sights on...
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SpaceX's new "V3" Starship megarocket was supposed to fly for the first time ever on Thursday (May...
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The Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) instruments aboard ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft and...
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On May 21, ground controllers powered down NASA’s AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) instrument, bringing the data collection...
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Dave Doctor from Las Cruces, New Mexico The emission nebula Sharpless 2–284 lies roughly 15,000 light-years away...
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WASP-94A b is a hot, tidally locked gas giant orbiting close to one of the stars in...
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Rocket Lab launched an Earth-observing radar satellite for the Japanese company Synspective early Friday morning (May 22).
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Superluminous supernovae are the royalty in the supernova world. They’re up to 100 times brighter than a...
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"She doesn’t want a promotion or any attention. She's just trying to stay under the radar."
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With Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu launching into theaters this weekend, we’ve searched the galaxy for...
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SpaceX’s blockbuster IPO filing included some out-of-this-world details, including a provision that founder Elon Musk’s massive bonus...
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Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have witnessed a cloudy morning dissipating to leave a...
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Sand clouds form every morning but clear up by nightfall on WASP-94A b, a well-studied gas giant...
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Black holes are regions in space where gravity is so strong that nothing, even light, can escape....
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A conspiracy theorist confronted the Artemis 2 astronauts on Capitol Hill recently, accusing them of faking their...
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We tested Nikon's new Action 16x50 binoculars for up-close stargazing, and saw lunar craters and Orion's belt...
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A new study has found that simple digital finance tools such as mobile money can help small...
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A team from Vienna and Frankfurt has found a formula describing a strange phenomenon: Space and time...