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Each of the sun-reflecting mirrors proposed by U.S.-based startup Reflect Orbital will appear 40 times brighter than...
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Chance gaze at old Hubble Telescope image leads to discovery that could reveal dark matter’s secrets
In late June 2023, on a morning train commuting to work in New York City, David Hendel...
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At the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, researchers are testing the capsule heat shield for the...
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On Aug. 26, 1978, cosmonaut and pilot Sigmund Jähn became the first German to fly in space.Jähn...
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Across the decades, Star Wars' secret sauce has always been a feeling – an intoxicating mixture of...
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SpaceX's launch from Florida early this morning (Aug. 25) was memorable in more ways than one.The mission,...
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SpaceX launched 27 more of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit today (Aug. 26), in a predawn...
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NASA is just days away from launching its next major space observatory.The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope...
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A spectacular partial lunar eclipse will darken 96% of the full "Sturgeon Moon" overnight on Aug. 27-28....
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"Houston, we have a working comm link again."Thanks to the efforts of two astronauts, such a call...
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The history of Alien video games is long and twisty, but Mike Diver — veteran writer, editor,...
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A new spaceport will bring 10 launch pads to Louisiana's Gulf Coast and support thousands of Starship...
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Betelgeuse may be a well-known and often-studied stellar object, but that doesn't mean astronomers aren't capable of...
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Even if you aren't the kind of person who often looks up the latest space images, it's...
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Today (Aug. 25), the sun unleashed a powerful M6.9 solar flare from a restless Earth-facing sunspot, hurling...
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ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and NASA astronaut Anil Menon complete a spacewalk on Aug. 18, 2026. (Image...
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On Aug. 25, 1997, NASA launched the Advanced Composition Explorer, or ACE satellite to study energetic particles...
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Polish startup Ares Shield hired to protect data center satellites with high-power microwave weapons
The final frontier is getting more and more contested, so satellite companies are investing in some self-defense.At...
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No GPS available in space? A satellite experiment may have a solution for that.NASA's Starling mission —...
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' fourth season is well underway, and if you're determined not to miss...