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In September 2022, astronomers observed something very odd in a galaxy around 7.5 billion light-years from Earth....
A mysterious giant 10-sided pattern of clouds has recently formed around Saturn's south pole, a new study...
Another reusable Chinese rocket has taken to the skies.Pallas-1, a launcher developed by the Beijing-based company Galactic...
Famed author Thomas Wolfe coined the phrase "You Can’t Go Home Again" with the title of his...
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Mercury’s surface is barren and covered in impact craters, and looks very much like the surface of...
UPDATE for Sept. 3: BepiColombo mission to Mercury successfully began its arrival sequence at the innermost planet...
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Blue Origin will build NASA's next Mars orbiter.The agency announced on Tuesday (Sept. 1) that it has...
Released in 2014, "Alien: Isolation" was a sci-fi horror gaming masterpiece that combined stealth, survival horror mechanics,...
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Spacecraft famously have small bits of them disintegrate on reentry. That’s by design, as it is one...
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Ah, that ever-elusive dark matter. Although there has been some tantalizing evidence suggesting the detection of a...
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In the four years that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been making observations of the...
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The search for dark matter has reached another milestone – in this case the start of science...
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Fire spews from the 27 Merlin engines of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket during the launch of...
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On Sept. 2, 2016, the European Space Agency finally located Philae, its long-lost comet lander. Philae was...
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In what could be a groundbreaking discovery, scientists report they may have detected the first direct evidence...
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Keeping track of time in the universe is a difficult task. It’s constantly evolving and changing, and...
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