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A private spacecraft failed to rescue NASA's Swift space telescope, meaning the big observatory will come crashing...
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More than a month after its epic spaceflight, Starship is finally headed home.SpaceX announced today (Aug. 27)...
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One of the JWST’s main jobs is studying planets forming in the disks around young stars. These...
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The hours are counting down to the launch of NASA's newest flagship orbital observatory. The spacecraft recently...
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On Aug. 27, 1962, NASA launched Mariner 2, the world's first spacecraft to successfully visit another planet.Mariner...
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An image of this spiral galaxy NGC 4258 that combines X-ray observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory...
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Every so often, "Star Trek" likes to put its brave interstellar adventurers through hell. You know the...
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Flight VA270 | MTG-I2 | Ariane 6 | Arianespace - YouTube Watch On Europe's most powerful rocket...
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Tonight (Aug. 27-28), the full Sturgeon Moon will slip into Earth's shadow, creating a stunning "almost blood...
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The latest Swedish-led search for technosignatures in the form of Dyson Spheres has again come up empty-handed....
Nature-based projects are generating more environmental data than ever before. Satellites observe landscapes from orbit, while field...
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When we think of weather forecasts, we instinctively think of weather on Earth like rain or shine....
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NASA took the guts out of old spy satellites to build the groundbreaking Nancy Grace Roman Space...
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Some of the strangest weather in the solar system doesn’t happen on Earth, or even Jupiter’s Great...
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A recent Copernicus Sentinel-1 image shows that a 76 sq km chunk ice broke away from one...
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Astronomers have discovered a new ocean world outside the solar system that orbits extremely close to its...