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HELSINKI — China has established a national very low Earth orbit industry alliance, as multiple satellites demonstrate...
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Chirag Upreti from New York City Active region AR 4475, a cluster of sunspots that emerged June...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. June 28: Mercury stands...
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The center of the Milky Way is a chaotic region with a storm of gas, but astronomers...
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When a star gets too close to a supermassive black hole, it is destroyed in a brilliant...
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Astronomers have discovered two of the lightest worlds ever found, giant planets less dense than candy floss,...
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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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Star formation is a significant factor in galaxy evolution, alongside collisions and mergers. Researchers from Ohio State...
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Jupiter’s moon, Europa, is a focus for astrobiologists due to its subsurface ocean of liquid water, which...
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This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image showcases the galaxy cluster CL0016+1609, also known as MACS J0018.5+1626, which...
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Researchers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory confirmed that two long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) originated from the...
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Comets have play an interesting role in astronomy history. From antiquity, many cultures saw them omens or...
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A research team led by Professor So Youn Kim from Seoul National University has developed a methodology...
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One year ago, on July 1, 2025, astronomers discovered a fascinating new object moving through the solar...
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A Falcon 9 rocket launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base in June 28, 2026, carrying 24 Starlink...
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SpaceX launched 24 more of its Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit on Sunday (June 28), continuing...
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Australia will expand shark-spotting drone coverage year-round at beaches across Sydney and beyond starting July 1, according...
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NASA is racing to save an aging telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue...
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It's a contested field, but John Williams' majestic "Superman" theme is up there with the best the...
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Japan's Hayabusa2 sample-return spacecraft is on target to make one of the closest ever flybys of a...