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Starliner Faces New Delays for Crewed Flights to ISS
Jupiter's "Stripes" Change Color. Now We Might Know Why
Astronomers are Searching for a Galaxy-Wide Transmitter Beacon at the Center of the Milky Way
Researchers with the SETI Institute have monitored the center of the Milky Way for possible transmissions from a galactic beacon.
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Betelgeuse is Almost 50% Brighter Than Normal. What's Going On?
Three New Astronauts Arrive at the Chinese Space Station, Including the Country's First Civilian
China's Shenzou-16 mission just delivered three taikonauts to the Tiangong space station, performing the most complicated docking maneuver ever attempted
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These New Computer Simulations of the Sun are Hypnotic
JWST Scans an Ultra-Hot Jupiter's Atmosphere
You Can Detect Tsunamis as They Push the Atmosphere Around
Exactly How Massive is the Milky Way?
What is the mass of the Milky Way? What do you get if you add up all the stars, gas, dust, black holes, planets, and dark matter? It's a tricky problem since we're embedded inside the Milky Way.
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If You're Going to Visit Venus, Why Not Include an Asteroid Flyby Too?
ESA is Testing How Iron Burns in Weightlessness
Here's How You Could Get Impossibly Large Galaxies in the Early Universe
A study by an Israeli team of astronomers offers a solution to the "impossibly massive" galaxies Webb observed.
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UFO Panelists Say NASA Needs Better Data — and Help From AI
A New Launch Complex Opens Up in the Ocean
The Spaceport Company successfully tested its prototype mobile sea platform, launching multiple rockets from the Gulf of Mexico
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The Kepler Mission's Final Three Planets?
There's a New Supernova in a Familiar Galaxy. You Can See it in a Small Telescope
Astronomers discover dozens of supernovae yearly, but seeing one bright and close is rare. If you have a small telescope and camera, you can take pictures of a supernova flaring in the famous Pinwheel Galaxy (M101).
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Robots in orbit are becoming even more popular. There are still many technical challenges ahead.
NASA's Mars Helicopter Went Silent for Six Agonizing Days
A Third of Planets Orbiting Red Dwarf Stars Could be in the Habitable Zone
This is How NASA Wanted to Rescue Space Shuttle Astronauts
A Sign from Space Simulates What it Would be Like to Get a Message from Aliens!
A Sign in Space project has simulated a message from an extraterrestrial intelligence and has involved the global community in decoding it.
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Stratolaunch Buys Virgin Orbit's Rocket-Launching 747
HAKUTO-R's Software Got Confused at the Last Minute, Causing it to Crash into the Moon
How Much Damage Will Lunar Landings Do to Lunar Orbiters?
A new study considers how missions landing and taking off from the lunar surface could cause damage to orbiting spacecraft.
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A New Place to Search for Habitable Planets: "The Soot Line."
JWST Spies a Gigantic Water Plume at Enceladus
One Spacecraft Could Visit All of Saturn's Inner Large Moons
Saturn's moon Enceladus is one of the best places we could search for life in the Solar System. A new paper proposes a single mission powered by an electric propulsion system that could visit Enceladus and other inner moons.
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North Korea May Launch Spy Satellite Soon
The enigmatic nation may attempt to put a satellite in orbit, as early as this week.
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China is Planning to Have Humans on the Moon by 2030
NASA Seeks Industry Proposals for Next-Generation Lunar Rover
Juice is Fully Deployed. It's Now in its Final Form, Ready to Meet Jupiter's Moons in 2031
China's Rover Found Evidence of an Ancient Ocean on Mars
When Black Holes Merge, They'll Ring Like a Bell
How a merged black hole rings as it settles into a stable form holds clues to a better understanding of gravity.
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ESA Has a Playground for Mars Rovers to Learn how to Explore the Red Planet
Amazing Views From ESA's New MeteoSat Weather Satellite
The European Space Agency's latest third generation Meteosat-I 1 weather satellite shows its stuff, with more to come.
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Chandra and JWST Join Forces in a Stunning Series of Images
NASA scientists have combined data from the James Webb and Chandra observatories to create stunning series of images.
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Want to be an asteroid miner? There's a database for that.
Virgin Galactic's Space Plane Rises Again for Final Flight Test
NASA May Have Found Hakuto-R's Crash Site
After Three Years of Upgrades, LIGO is Fully Operational Again
Artificial Gravity Tests on Earth Could Improve Astronaut Health in Space
The ESA is conducting a new study that measures the effects simulated gravity and exercise have for astronaut health.
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There's a Polar Cyclone on Uranus' North Pole
Where Are the Missing Black Holes? The Hubble May Have Helped Find One
eROSITA Sees Changes in the Most Powerful Quasar
An international team of astronomers observed the quasar J1114 in the X-ray band for the first time, revealing things about its inner workings and quasars they shape their host galaxies.
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Juno Reveals Volcanoes on Io
An Astronaut Will Be Controlling Several Robots on Earth… from Space
SETI Researchers Are Simulating Alien Contact — and You Can Help
The Tonga Eruption Was So Powerful it Disrupted Satellites Half a World Away
The Heaviest Neutron Stars Could Have Strange Matter Cores
Four Private Astronauts Are Now on the International Space Station
