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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force...
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Early this morning, a SpaceX rocket slammed into the moon at seven times the speed of sound....
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One week ago, more than 200 miles above the Earth, a refrigerator-size satellite making its way toward...
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As trees disappear from urban neighborhoods, lives may be lost with them. In a new study, Northwestern...
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You might think of rockets as powerful vehicles that blast astronaut crews and robotic missions into space....
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Astronomers have captured the death of a massive star from its first faint flash of X-rays, revealing...
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A piece of a SpaceX rocket weighing four tonnes (4.4 tons) was believed to have unintentionally crashed...
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Another wave of constellations has staked claims for communications satellites in non-geostationary orbit (NGSO), but what hope...
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Researchers from the U.S. National Science Foundation National Solar Observatory (NSF NSO), the Max Planck Institute for...
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A rare fossil discovered near South America’s largest known meteorite crater has been named a new species....
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A close-up of the polygon fractures discovered by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover highlights their honeycomb-like textures. (Image...
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On Aug. 5, 2011, NASA launched the Juno spacecraft on a mission to study Jupiter, the largest...
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A new study suggests the sounds around us have a significant impact on how we feel about...
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Planting boots on Mars is hard enough. But getting "breathing room" on the Red Planet without inhaling...
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Neil Alden Armstrong was born on Aug. 5, 1930, in Ohio. A naval pilot from 1949 to...
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The mood was celebratory at the ribbon-cutting for Muon Space’s San Jose, California, manufacturing facility in June....
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Venus may be overwhelmingly inhospitable today, but many planetary scientists believe that it wasn’t always this way....
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Star Wars: Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi may not be the Star Wars TV show you...
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The Aug. 12 total solar eclipse is nearly here, and if you’re hoping to observe totality, you...
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Europe risks becoming dependent on foreign orbital computing infrastructure as U.S. companies and China’s government-led push accelerate...