The InSight lander recently detected the strongest seismic signal yet, thanks to its Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument.
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The LIGO detector is back online after months of upgrades, and has made two new detections already!
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Astronomers recently spied a massive flare on a tiny diminutive star, a powerful, radiation spewing event that you wouldn't want to witness up close.
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A new study reveals that traveling through a wormhole may actually be possible, but don't count on it saving you any time!
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Stratolaunch recently conducted the first test flight of its air-carrier plane, the largest and heaviest aircraft in the world.
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Up for a challenge? Some of the toughest targets for a backyard observer involve little or no equipment at all. Northern hemisphere Spring brings with it one of our favorite astronomical pursuits: the first sighting of the extremely thin, waxing crescent Moon. This unique feat of visual athletics may be fairly straight forward... but it's tougher than you think. The angle of the evening ecliptic in the Spring is still fairly high for mid-northern latitudes, taking the Moon up and out of the weeds as a waxing crescent.
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Our Guide to Space's official page on Soviet and Russian space missions
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Musk recently announced that SpaceX will begin deploying the first batch of its internet satellites next year and continuing until 2024.
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A team of researchers from NASA and the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) recently proposed a low-cost mission to explore Neptune's largest moon, Triton.
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