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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launched 29 Amazon Leo internet satellites to orbit on Friday...
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Past research has indicated Mars’s largest northern basin, Utopia Planitia, was once the location of a large...
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Which comes first, the galaxy or the black hole? We don’t know, but scientists have long thought...
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As winter’s brilliant stars slip toward the western horizon and the constellations of spring climb higher, Northern...
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Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket exploded during testing Thursday night, May 28, blasting flames and debris...
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SpaceX launched 29 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Friday (May 29), about 12...
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Welcome to Edition 8.43 of the Rocket Report! A disclaimer: No one yet fully appreciates the ramifications...
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When it comes to understanding Earth and our changing environment, space is the place. Not only does...
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How ambitious should you be? Folk wisdom offers conflicting advice: “Shoot for the moon,” but also, “Don’t...
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Maverick director Nicolas Roeg delivered a surreal sci-fi classic in 1976 that still resonates today.
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One of the most important eclipses in history happened in 1919. This particular eclipse cut a path...
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Astronomers may have uncovered a hidden supermassive black hole inside the famous Antennae galaxies NGC 4038/4039, a...
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Astronomers have discovered the first evidence that tiny red dwarf stars can devour their own planets.
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New research suggests the moons of Jupiter and Uranus may hint that our planetary neighborhood once had...
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Every byte of data a spacecraft collects, every image, every reading, every scientific measurement has to survive...
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We live in a golden age of astronomical imaging. Telescopes are capturing billions of galaxy images, painting...
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Researchers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville have found a new way to measure the mass...
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Katelyn Beecroft from London, Ontario, Canada The Monkey Head Nebula (NGC 2174) lies roughly 5,000 light-years away...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. May 28: Scorpius holds...