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NASA astronaut Sunita Williams to address Earth from orbiting international Space Station
Meanwhile, crew of the Polaris Dawn the Elon Musk-led private charted spaceflight created history w…
ANI
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A planet thrice the size of Jupiter discovered due to its 'strange orbit'
It took 20 years of observations to figure out that the planet has an 'highly eccentric'…
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The United Arab Emirates' Mars probe just entered orbit around the red planet, the first in a Mars-mission bonanza
The UAE's first interplanetary mission could help solve the mystery of what happened to the Martian…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mangalyaan Just A Month Away From Rendezvous With Red Planet
According to Indian space agency ISRO's Facebook profile, the orbiter is nine million kilometres aw…
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Elon Musk is launching a Tesla Roadster to Mars orbit - and he just posted an Instagram photo to prove it
"Test flights of new rockets usually contain mass simulators in the form of concrete or steel block…
Dave Mosher
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The 2024 harvest moon is the 2nd supermoon and last lunar eclipse this year. Here's the best time to see it when it rises Tuesday.
September 17's full moon will be a supermoon and a harvest moon. A partial lunar eclipse will also …
Jenny McGrath,Jessica Orwig
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New "fiery" exoplanet discovered, found to display volcanic activity like Jupiter's Io
In a known star system about 66 light years away from Sun, the astrophysicists discovered signal…
PTI
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Netflix's hit sci-fi series '3 Body Problem' is based on a real math problem that is so complex it's impossible to solve
The three-body problem is a question in physics that deals with planets and stars. It's considered …
Jenny McGrath
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When is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere? Find out what it is, and its meaning
The summer solstice marks the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere and the arrival of…
Marianne Guenot,Shayanne Gal
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Five personal finance lessons to learn from ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 mission
All of India rejoiced when Chandrayaan-3 made a successful landing on the moon’s South Pole on Augu…
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NASA lost contact with a satellite on its way to the moon and is scrambling to reconnect to it
NASA's CAPSTONE satellite was launched last week in the hope of testing out an orbit path for a muc…
Marianne Guenot
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The full moon has different names for each month. Here's the meaning and origin for the whole lunar calendar.
The full moon goes by many names each month, like the worm moon in March or the harvest moon in Sep…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Jenny M…
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As Earth's climate got wetter, ancient humans were able to migrate more widely, a new scientific model suggests
A research team simulated Earth's climate history 2 million years ago. Their work suggests human ex…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Earth got its water and organic matter from asteroids, finds Japan's space probe
Water and organic matter was brought to Earth by asteroids, finds Japan's Hayabusa2 space probe. T…
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A mesmerizing NASA video lets you ride with the Juno spacecraft as it flies by Jupiter and its largest moon
Juno flew within 645 miles of Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, last week - the closest any spacecr…
Aria Bendix
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The Chinese rocket speeding back to Earth is so unpredictable it could land almost anywhere. One guess is around Turkmenistan late on May 8.
Estimates will "vary wildly" until the rocket is closer, says 18th Space Control Squadron, a branch…
Marianne Guenot
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Elon Musk's Tesla and its 'Starman' driver just flew past Mars for the first time, 2 years after SpaceX launched the car into the void
From Musk's old Roadster — a "hood ornament" on a Falcon Heavy rocket stage — Mars would look about…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Space Force unveils flag; Trump touts 'super-duper missile'
The flag also features a globe, for the Space Force fighters' home turf, and an elliptical orbit a…