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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – June, 2026 The Centre for Space Futures (CSF), together with leading international partners...
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Three years before the skyscraper-size asteroid Apophis makes its very close (but safe) flyby of Earth, scientists...
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HELSINKI — China’s Tianwen-2 sample return spacecraft has arrived at Kamoʻoalewa, revealing the near Earth asteroid to...
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China’s Tianwen-2 space probe, which is set to bring back samples from an asteroid for research, has...
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The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has discovered 31 of the most ancient quasars ever found....
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NASA is partnering with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) on an effort to attract capital to...
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Using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory, astronomers have taken a closer look at a nearby exoplanet and discovered it...
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An international team involving over ten institutions, with a strong participation from ESO and INAF, has characterised...
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An international team led by Stefanie Komossa from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in...
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The European Space Agency has selected Airbus Defence and Space to start work on the successor to...
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A Japanese space probe performed a flyby of a near-Earth asteroid on Sunday in a test mission...
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A new rover prototype is teaching NASA scientists how to design robots that can think for themselves...
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Isaac Newton‘s monumental book, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, was published July 5, 1687. Newton had developed the...
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soars past the Sun during the Starlink 10-50 mission on July 5,...
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Kids who grew up in the '80s and '90s couldn't enjoy the massive selection of live-action sci-fi...
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Earth is the only planet we know of with buoyant, silica-rich continents. But, despite decades of research,...
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For the Aug. 12, 2026, total solar eclipse, Spain's great cities will be pulling in eclipse-chasers from...
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Astronomers have uncovered a pair of giant planets that are lighter than cotton candy—super-puffs the size of...
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