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Isar Aerospace has signed a contract to develop a Canadian launch site for its Spectrum rocket, an...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. July 6: Catch the...
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Last year, an interstellar traveler entered our solar system. Some speculated that it was an alien spacecraft,...
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As part of NASA’s Moon to Mars eXploration Systems and Habitation (M2M X-Hab) 2026 Academic Innovation Challenge,...
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As the UK prepares for the third heat wave of 2026, most people will be hoping to...
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The U.S. just celebrated its 250th birthday, and Americans living off the planet had a great view...
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A Falcon 9 rocket stands poised to launch from the Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space...
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Warren Keller/Mike Selby, taken from Observatorio El Sauce, Chile NGC 7098 is a barred spiral galaxy around...
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SpaceX launched a passel of satellites to orbit early Tuesday morning (July 7).A Falcon 9 rocket carrying...
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Blue Origin is continuing to develop its Blue Moon lunar landers, with seven vehicles in production, while...
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With new technologies come new opportunities. And that is especially true in astronomy—with every new advanced telescope,...
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More evidence that the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is much older than our solar system has come to...
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The Canadian astronaut who was part of the historic Artemis II crew that successfully voyaged around the...
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Neutron sources can be directly identified from measured spectra rather than proxies using inference tools adapted from...
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Iridium Communications has completed its takeover of Aireon, bringing the aircraft-tracking venture fully in-house ahead of the...
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Astronomers have discovered an extremely low-mass and dim dwarf galaxy around Andromeda. Called And 35, it’s an...
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Rocket launches this week On Tuesday, July 7, at 3:10 a.m. EDT, SpaceX is targeting the launch...
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NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has a new method for detecting worlds beyond the...
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Mysterious "little red dots" discovered in the early universe by the James Webb Space Telescope could harbor...
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High above the remote Pacific Ocean, about halfway between Hawaii and the northernmost part of Australia, an...