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A rare 'Devil comet' will appear during the 2024 total solar eclipse. Here's how to see the Mt. Everest-sized space rock.
Cryovolcanic Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, aka the Devil comet or Mother of Dragons comet, may be visible …
Ellyn Lapointe
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ISRO’s Solar Mission launch on Sept 2 – Here is how you can register to watch it from Sriharikota
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which recently made history by becoming the first co…
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe becomes the fastest artificial object ever, 180 times faster than our fastest plane!
At such incredible speeds, the probe could complete roughly 15 circumnavigations of the Earth in ju…
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A mysterious rock orbiting Earth appears to be a chunk of the moon that was blasted away by a meteorite
The discovery could rewrite what we know about potentially dangerous space rocks and help better pr…
Marianne Guenot
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Mercury's shrinking history revealed through surface craters: insights from the planet's shriveling past
While missions to explore the moon's surface are numerous, the same cannot be said for Mercury. How…
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"Welcome, buddy!" Chandrayaan-2 orbiter greets Chandrayaan-3 lander as they establish communication
In a significant development, the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter which was already fixed around the moon est…
ANI
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After the moon, a journey to the sun with Aditya-L1
India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C57 (PSLV-C57) lifted off with the country's Aditya-L1 space…
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India successfully orbits 2 Singapore satellites (Ld)
Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh)India on Saturday successfully placed into orbit TeLEOS-2 and Lumilite-…
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The 'solar wind,' which the sun is constantly blasting over the planets, suddenly disappeared and created a void around Mars
A solar eruption left a void around Mars last year, causing the red planet's atmosphere to balloon …
Erin Snodgrass,Morgan McFall-…
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Videos show the techniques people used to capture glimpses of the solar eclipse, filming stunning footage of the phenomenon
People posted the methods they used to catch a glimpse of the solar eclipse, like creating a pinhol…
Andrew Lloyd
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Elon Musk's SpaceX says a geomagnetic storm wiped out 40 of the 49 Starlink satellites it launched into orbit last week
SpaceX said 80% of the satellites it launched Thursday are expected to burn up in the Earth's atmos…
Kate Duffy
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A sun-skimming spacecraft captured video of a massive plasma eruption on the solar surface for the first time
The sun's outbursts can send plasma and electrically charged particles careening toward Earth. This…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Solar eclipse date, time and everything you need to know
Among the two partial solar eclipses of 2022, the first occurred on April 30. The second and…
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NASA images show a meteor crashed into Mars, triggered a big quake, and kicked up surprise water ice
NASA's InSight lander detected an unusual quake on Mars. Then the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spott…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Mariann…
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NASA scientists plan to bake, slice, and fire lasers at the asteroid sample from OSIRIS-REx to understand the creation of our solar system
Scientists plan to methodically examine samples from NASA's first asteroid mission, OSIRIS-REx, to …
Maiya Focht
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A spacecraft rocketing around the sun just beamed back the closest images ever taken of our star
The Solar Orbiter discovered little explosions happening all across the solar surface. They could c…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A second Earth-sized world orbiting a dwarf star discovered by scientists
Using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, scientists have identified an Earth-s…
ANI
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An astronomer's animation shows how Earth and the moon both orbit a spot 3,000 miles from the true center of the planet
All planetary systems have a barycenter, a point where their mass is balanced. In the Earth-moon sy…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers spot the biggest cosmic explosion ever seen, and it's 100 times the size of our solar system
The blast, which is 2 trillion times brighter than the sun, may have been caused by a supermassive …
Marianne Guenot
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A rare solar eclipse is happening in the US this weekend and 68 million Americans have the chance to see it. Here's when, where, and how to see this spectacular 'ring of fire' safely.
An annular or "ring of fire" solar eclipse will cross the US on October 14, 2023. Here's what that …