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Aside from fireworks, what better way to celebrate 250 years of independence than by launching your own...
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Welcome to Edition 9.01 of the Rocket Report! Back in January, I wrote about the 20 launches...
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A new paper by astronomers led by Z.L. Wen from the Chinese Academy of Sciences describes the...
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Astronomers reported that planets outside our solar system can possess magnetic fields akin to those of planets...
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Radio transients are short-lived sources of radio radiation that can occur near supermassive black holes in galaxy...
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On July 4, the United States of America celebrates its 250th birthday, marking the anniversary of the...
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An international team of astronomers has discovered a new massive barred spiral galaxy named M1149-BSG-z5 using the...
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The protostars of the star system FS Tau as seen by the JWST (Image credit: NASA, ESA,...
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More than 500,000 stars blaze red, white, and blue in an image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope,...
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HELSINKI — Hongqing Technology, the satellite manufacturing affiliate of launch firm Landspace, has secured one of the...
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The ornamental Flowerhorn cichlid (Amphilophus spp.), valued for its golden color, has become a significant issue for...
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Space Race pioneer Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev died July 3, 2004, in Cheboksary, Russia. Even among the first...
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The last time America celebrated a big anniversary, I was all of three years old. Even so,...
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Several small asteroids travel around the sun in near lockstep with Earth and take a year to...
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Want to see Uranus for yourself? Independence Day morning offers one of the best opportunities in decades,...
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A three-armed spacecraft launched into orbit on Friday to rescue a NASA telescope that is at risk...
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A study into the foraging habits of green turtles in the Northern Territory has used an innovative...
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The United States has taken some significant steps into the final frontier during its first 250 years.The...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. July 2: The King’s...
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Friday, July 3Although the Moon is still bright, there’s a short window after darkness falls and before...