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Neil Alden Armstrong was born on Aug. 5, 1930, in Ohio. A naval pilot from 1949 to...
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The mood was celebratory at the ribbon-cutting for Muon Space’s San Jose, California, manufacturing facility in June....
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Venus may be overwhelmingly inhospitable today, but many planetary scientists believe that it wasn’t always this way....
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Star Wars: Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi may not be the Star Wars TV show you...
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The Aug. 12 total solar eclipse is nearly here, and if you’re hoping to observe totality, you...
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Europe risks becoming dependent on foreign orbital computing infrastructure as U.S. companies and China’s government-led push accelerate...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. August 4: Asteroid Bamberga...
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Neuraspace, the Portuguese space traffic management startup, announced around $18 million in fresh funding Aug. 5 to...
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Get notified of updates 2026-08-10T09:35:41.436Z Could the northern lights appear during the eclipse? Could we see the...
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Get ready stargazers! We're just one week away from the total solar eclipse on Aug. 12, when...
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Voyager Technologies remains upbeat about the prospects for its Starlab commercial space station but is hoping for...
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Rover data from more than 20 years ago has revealed clues to the existence of liquid water...
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The companies, along with a third unidentified vendor, won $615 million in contracts for the AMTI satellite...
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SpaceX plans to start deploying upgraded Starlink satellites into orbit on the next flight of its Starship...
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SpaceX will make some history this month, if all goes according to plan.The company aims to launch...
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Arctic communications award will fund an expansion of Telesat’s Lightspeed, taking the planned LEO network to 225...
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying three of AST SpaceMobile's massive direct-to-cell BlueBird satellites launched from Florida's...
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Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) are often described as a “fifth state of matter”: a quantum state in which...
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During the Space Age and Cold War, fusion-powered spacecraft systems were investigated as a possible means of...
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Using continuous imagery from NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, scientists predicted the...