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Astronomers have found the fastest known star in the Milky Way, a faint object racing around Sagittarius...
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LandSpace’s ZhuQue-3 rocket booster lands at the company’s landing pad during the second flight of the launch...
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Something’s wetting the surface of dwarf planet Pluto along the northern edge of Sputnik Planitia, and planetary...
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NASA is calling off the effort to save its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory after a private rescue...
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Katalyst Space and NASA have called off plans to use the company’s Link spacecraft to raise the...
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When astronomers studying the Milky Way’s center found a group of stars orbiting the center very rapidly,...
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Despite our love for little "Baby Yoda", "The Mandalorian and Grogu" wasn't the thrilling "Star Wars" feature...
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Astronomers have discovered that a jet of plasma erupting from a distant supermassive black hole at near-light-speed...
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It seems the overwhelming majority of the time when we write about satellite megaconstellations, it’s as a...
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Welcome back to our series on Interstellar Travel! In our first installment, we examined attempts to realize...
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NASA's veteran moon-circling spacecraft, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), has imaged the impact site of that errant...
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A mysterious incident over the southern Indian Ocean forced a U.S. Air Force aircraft to turn around...
East Aurora, NY — Moog Inc. (NYSE: MOG.A and MOG.B), a worldwide designer, manufacturer and systems integrator...
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One of the surprises delivered by the JWST concerns the sizes of early galaxies. The powerful telescope...
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Remember the “Wow!” signal? That high energy radio signature happened in 1977, when the Earth was much...
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The world of science fiction started with the written word, long before it hit the silver screen....
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On Aug. 19, 1997, the Philippines' first satellite launched into space. Before then, the country's only communications...
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Top 5 things to see in the night sky with binoculars — ranked by an expertBeyond simple...
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover saw a solar eclipse from the Martian surface. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU)People around the...