On Sept. 8, 2004, NASA's Genesis spacecraft crash-landed in Utah after its parachutes failed to deploy.Genesis was...
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A team of researchers just chased a pair of reentering satellites in a private jet to learn...
Nearly every galaxy has a supermassive black hole. The few that don’t have had theirs ejected during...
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Scientists have spotted the first hints that Albert Einstein's formulation of gravity operates in the quantum realm.The...
We know the universe is constantly expanding. We also know that gravitationally bound objects, such as solar...
It began with an unusual flash detected off the coast of South Africa by an aging American...
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The Moon, now in Cancer, sits close to bright Jupiter in the early-morning sky of September 8....
Say what you want about the changes to the space industry that’s happened over the past 10-20...
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again – space is hard. Another example, albeit lacking...
The COSMOS field, or Cosmic Evolution Survey Deep Field, is one of the most famous patches of...
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Active black holes are pretty easy to detect. Their superheated accretion disks emit bright x-rays, and the...
The moon could have formed in a matter of hours following the giant impact between Earth and...
On Tuesday (Sept. 8), skywatchers can first catch a striking predawn pairing of the crescent moon and...
On Sept. 7, 1995, the space shuttle Endeavour launched on mission STS-69. This was the 100th successful...