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Cassini, NASA’s last major mission to Saturn, famously plunged to its fiery death in the gas giant’s...
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A Tokyo-based astrobiologist is using an ingenious new way to garner insight into Earth’s 3.5-billion-year-old biosphere.
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NASA is planning to send two maneuverable probes to lunar orbit in order to learn how spacecraft...
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The galaxy is littered with rogue planets, worlds flung out of the systems that built them, drifting...
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Every night, astronomers must carefully assess changing weather, the intensity of moonlight and shifting atmospheric conditions before...
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Nearly a month since its launch, a first-of-its-kind commercial satellite built to save NASA's Swift gamma-ray telescope...
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An ongoing military exercise happening hundreds of miles above Earth has—for the first time in an unclassified...
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It was Lucky 13 for SpaceX, as new videos show just how much work came into getting...
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The Space Force Association’s National Spacepower Center is building an unclassified environment for demonstrating threats to satellites...
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On July 31, 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts drove on the moon for the first time. David Scott,...
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Exploration geologists and Artemis science officers Trevor Graff, left, and Angela Garcia carry out a lunar training...
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Looking forward to the 2026 solar eclipse, happening on Aug. 12? I know I am and even...
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Vendors will compete for orders to build satellites, sensors and systems for more realistic military space exercises...
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With the Space Race heating up, the Ranger program was developed as an answer to Sputnik: The...
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Researchers have obtained the deepest images ever taken of IC 1101, allowing them to identify the galaxy’s...
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In March 2021, while serving as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, I hosted a discussion...
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A NASA official says that work with Boeing on the company’s CST-100 Starliner vehicle is making “good...
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Venus dominates the evening sky throughout August, but early risers have a special treat too, as Mercury...
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Playmobil is known for crafting imaginative playsets, taking kids (and adults) on big adventures from the comfort...
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Most of us are familiar with Betelgeuse (also known as alpha Orionis), the bright shoulder star in...