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File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is vertical at Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg...
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in...
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Some birds sing to attract a mate. Others dance or display colorful feathers. But in the moonlit...
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A recent study published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences has uncovered a detailed mechanism through which intense...
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In the closing decades of the 20th century, several proposed explanations were put forward for why humanity...
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Anime has gone mainstream in the United States, drawing millions of fans who spend big money on...
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There are more opportunities to access space than ever, thanks to a bevy of commercial rockets, some...
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Scientists are exploring how lasers stabilized in the moon's coldest, darkest craters could enable a GPS-like network...
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A team at the University of Vienna, led by chemist Nuno Maulide, has developed a new method...
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A worker died at SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas early Friday morning (May 15), as the...
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An international team of scientists has developed a new analysis of how sound waves behave, revealing surprising...
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'Well, let’s call it an advance on the next mission.'
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The California startup Vast, which is best known for its space station plans, announced today (May 19)...
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Ever since the JWST found over-massive black holes in the early Universe, researchers have been trying to...
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A new European-led telescope could map the dusty, hidden half of the universe, all without using fossil...
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The moon dances with the king of the planets, with the horizon as their stage.
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Some animals can move efficiently beneath granular surfaces. These include the sandfish (Scincus scincus), a lizard native...
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As space missions travel farther from Earth, spacecraft must increasingly be able to process and store their...
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A study of 66 million GPS mobility records shows that racial minorities are not as well served...