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PHOENIX, AZ — August 24, 2026 — Spirit Electronics, a value‑added distributor of high‑reliability electronics focused on...
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The Perseid meteor shower dazzled stagazers with a spectacular natural light show around its peak on Aug....
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A partial lunar eclipse takes place this Aug. 27-28 and this beginner-friendly Celestron PowerSeeker 80EQ telescope, nearly...
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After NASA astronauts landed on the moon in 1969, their achievement bore decades’ worth of fruit, including...
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ESA's Sentinel-1 mission captured remarkable imagery showing significant ice loss and calving at the Petermann Glacier. (Image...
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On Aug. 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) decided that Pluto wasn't a planet anymore.Since that...
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Houston — World Space Week Association announced today that Tory Bruno, President of National Security at Blue...
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The Milky Way has something of a torrid and violent history, given that our galaxy has fueled...
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Get notified of updates NASA's next great space telescope is almost ready to leave Earth. (Image credit:...
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Here's what to expect during each stage of the Aug. 27-28 partial lunar eclipse, as our planet's...
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In 1969, Roger Penrose (yes, that Penrose, the one who would later win a Nobel Prize) worked...
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In August of 2006, astronomers at the International Astronomical Union (IAU) democratically voted to reclassify Pluto as...
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A NASA-led team is hoping to take a short cut in directly imaging extrasolar earthlike planets. The...
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The principle of vacuum birefringence, a quantum effect first predicted almost 90 years ago by Werner Heisenberg,...
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The "Star Trek" franchise's 60th anniversary is coming straight at us warp speed and will be arriving...
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On Aug. 23, 1961, NASA launched the Ranger 1 robotic spacecraft on a precursor mission to test...
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A misbehaving coronal mass ejection (CME) that blew out a hidden cloud of charged particles aimed at...