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The NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially launched the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST),...
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The past 250 years of optical telescopes have seen revolutionary discoveries and technology that the telescope's inventor,...
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The Martian features a scene where Mark Watney is stabbed in the torso with a communications antenna,...
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A new state law limits Florida communities’ aims to offset greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the...
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Land surface temperature data captured by Europe's Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission on Wednesday, June 23, 2026. The data...
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Securing sustainable food supplies is a key challenge for long-term human exploration and potential habitation of the...
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Commercial space station developer Vast named the former president and chief executive of The Aerospace Corp. as...
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BOULDER, Colorado — After Earth's moon and Mars, where could humans plant their footprints? The "Humans to...
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An enormous explosion occurred approximately 3 to 6 miles (3.8 to 9.7 kilometers) above the Tunguska River...
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HELSINKI — SSC Space and Firefly have set a 2028 target for the first orbital launch from...
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Five-month-old startup Orbital has asked the Federal Communications Commission for permission to deploy up to 100,000 data...
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Jessika Boles, Ph.D., an assistant professor of practice in psychology and human development and a VKC member,...
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NASA will provide an update about its moon base plans this afternoon (June 30), and you can...
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Observations of a distant cluster of stars in our galaxy have led to the identification of a...
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Astronomers have identified a distant candidate galaxy that leaks ionizing radiation, which is the same type of...
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The first full moon of summer, June's Strawberry Moon, wowed skywatchers worldwide with a spectacular display. June's...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. June 29: June’s Strawberry...
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NASA on Tuesday is set to launch a robotic rescue mission to prevent one of its aging...
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Astronomers were surprised when NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory detected dozens of supernova remnants in a nearby galaxy...
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Jezero Crater on Mars is a 45-kilometer-wide crater that once hosted a lake billions of years ago,...