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Researchers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville have found a new way to measure the mass...
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Katelyn Beecroft from London, Ontario, Canada The Monkey Head Nebula (NGC 2174) lies roughly 5,000 light-years away...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. May 28: Scorpius holds...
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Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded on the pad at Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space...
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Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, May 29An hour after sunset...
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Blue Origin's fourth New Glenn rocket exploded during a prelaunch engine test on Thursday night (May 28)....
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With peak wildfire season approaching, scientists with NASA’s FireSense project have created low-cost thermal sensors to install...
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The JWST has shown us some strange things about supermassive black holes (SMBH) in the early Universe....
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Russian cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev worked to install and retrieve science experiments while on a...
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SpaceX has won a lucrative contract to provide the US military with a means of distributing space-based...
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was designed to give us the ability to look at one...
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A closeup shot of SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster, tail number Booster 19, during the initial moments of...
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A study covering 76 countries has found that people who are more trusting, patient, altruistic and cooperative...
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Complex organic molecules (COMS) are at the heart of life. They’re created where jets from protostars slam...
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This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the dwarf irregular galaxy ESO 490-017, roughly 12,000 light-years in...
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Researchers have developed a novel virtual model for simulating how astronauts in future moon base operations might...
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China shakes up its space programs to land astronauts on the moon by 2030: ‘We will spare no effort’
China is melding its robotic Chang'e lunar probe activities with the country's human spaceflight program in an...
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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has declared the debut flight of SpaceX's Starship V3 vehicle a mishap...
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There’s nothing like a random celestial coincidence, turned good internet meme. In this case, the chance event...
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A new statistical model reveals more details about the ringdown period of merging black holes.