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The July full moon occurs at 10:36 a.m. EDT (1436 GMT) on July 29, when the lunar...
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An Atlas 5 lifted off July 2 carrying a set of Amazon Leo satellites in the final...
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After Americans declared independence on July 4, 1776, a waning gibbous moon rose in the night sky....
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Heads up aurora chasers! The sun has been very busy. After unleashing an X1.1 solar flare on...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. July 1: Venus in...
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ULA launches final Atlas 5 rocket supporting Amazon Leo’s broadband internet satellite constellation
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 551 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape...
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The NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has commenced full operations for the Legacy Survey of Space and...
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Searching for habitable worlds beyond our solar system requires more than just identifying planets within their star’s...
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A study published in the journal Biological Invasions indicates that Brazil currently has at least 82 non-native...
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A new report links the long-running technical problems with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle to a...
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Steven Spielberg's latest sci-fi movie, Disclosure Day, has finally hit cinemas worldwide. It's been eight years since...
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A study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences estimates that Lake Chad...
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The FCC is set to vote July 22 on an order to overhaul its satellite application process,...
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Some of the most massive galaxies in the Universe appear to be missing a lot of stars,...
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United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched another batch of Amazon's internet satellites to orbit early Thursday morning (July...
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Ron Brecher from Guelph, Ontario, Canada Sharpless 2–112 is a glowing cloud of ionized hydrogen roughly 30...
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NASA’s TESS mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant star through space-time warping for the first...
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It doesn't get more America than giant rockets and missions to the moon.That's why NASA painted two...
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This weird ‘hot Jupiter’ exoplanet has a hotspot in the wrong place, and astronomers aren’t sure how
Hot Jupiters are some of the most extreme planets in the universe, blazing gas giants like Jupiter...
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The world’s religions and contemplative traditions often guide individuals toward experiences of compassion, bliss, awe, and awareness,...