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China's first-ever asteroid sampling mission has sent home a picture of its first target, the "quasi-moon" Kamo'oalewa.The...
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SpaceX launched the latest in its Transporter series of rideshare missions July 7 as industry concerns about...
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Researchers working with data from the South Pole Telescope have released a major catalog of galaxy clusters,...
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The former head of NASA is questioning the agency's plans to return astronauts to the moon, asking...
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New James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations reveal that the so-called “Roasted Planet” is getting cooked by...
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NASA astronaut Chris Williams flexes his muscles while on a spacewalk in this image snapped by fellow...
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How do you stop a large, threatening asteroid on its way to Earth? A new Chinese paper,...
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Following in the wheelmarks of Sojourner (NASA’s first Mars rover, which landed on Mars in 1997), Spirit...
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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified what may be the most distant barred spiral...
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Belgium’s Simera Sense has won a contract to provide multispectral imagers for a small constellation being designed...
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Water flowing from hot springs near volcanoes often contains a mixture of meteoric water that has percolated...
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The world's first commercially built nuclear-powered satellite has reached orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The...
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A research team from the Natural History Museum of Denmark has published a compelling new study in...
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As the military rushes to deploy proliferated networks, SpaceX’s dominance is attracting congressional scrutiny The post SpaceX...
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Are we alone in the universe? Consider mysterious “extraterrestrial” radio signals. Unexplained gases on other planets. Things...
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The mystery of how the sun's corona, which is its outer atmosphere, reaches millions of degrees could...
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Popular science fiction is no stranger to escape-pod scenarios, typically featuring characters who narrowly avoid their demise...
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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,...