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Satellite images show apparent mock-ups of US fifth-gen fighter jets and a runway with blast marks and craters in a Chinese desert
An imagery analyst said that it looked like China might be using this area for some kind of target …
Chris Panella
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Kylian Mbappé is the fifth highest-paid soccer player on the planet. Here's his net worth and how he makes and spends his millions.
Kylian Mbappé.Getty/Robbie Jay Barratt
Barnaby Lane
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Watch Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium in Bengaluru
"We have set up telescopes in our premises to watch the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn on Mon…
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An astronomer at Japan's space agency is making simple animations that reveal the surprising physics of the solar system
As a scientist at both NASA and JAXA, James O'Donoghue has studied the planets. In his free time, h…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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China's ambitious Tianwen-1 Mars mission - involving an orbiter, lander, and rover - just reached the red planet
China is the sixth nation ever to reach Mars. It could soon become the third to successfully land a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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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Photos reveal Jupiter and Saturn aligned in the sky as a 'Christmas star' that hadn't been seen for 800 years
On Monday, Jupiter and Saturn appeared the closest they'd been in the sky since 1226. Photos show t…
Aylin Woodward
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Jupiter and Saturn will appear closer in the sky than they have for 800 years on Monday, aligning as a 'double planet.' Here's how to see it.
On Monday, December 21, Jupiter and Saturn will be the closest they've been in the sky since the ye…
Aylin Woodward
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The 'Fifth Element' director is back with 'Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets'
French director Luc Besson is back with a new sci-fi film called 'Valerian and the City of a…
Darren Weaver
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The British Navy's 2 new aircraft carriers hit a major milestone at the same time — on opposite sides of the planet
It's been a busy fall for HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, which the Royal Navy calls "…
Benjamin Brimelow
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These are the 19 richest tech billionaires on the planet
The accumulated wealth of the 19 people on the lists stands at more than the GDP of Switzerland and…
Jake Kanter,Jake Kanter
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Tonight is the longest night of the year. You can use it to see a meteor shower and the historic Jupiter-Saturn 'double planet.'
Jupiter and Saturn haven't appeared this close in the night sky in nearly 800 years, and the conjun…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Watch NASA launch Perseverance, the space agency's alien-hunting car-size Mars rover, to the red planet
On Thursday at 7:50 a.m. ET, NASA launched its fifth Mars rover, Perseverance, aboard an Atlas V ro…
Susie Neilson
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The first-ever space helicopter is approaching Mars in the belly of NASA's rover. It could change how we explore other planets.
The Ingenuity drone was a last-minute addition to NASA's Perseverance rover. Now it's set to fly - …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Evidence of ninth planet in solar system found, nicknamed 'Planet Nine
Our solar system may host a ninth planet that is 10 times the mass of the Earth and takes up to 20,…
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NASA is launching its $2.4 billion Perseverance Mars rover on Thursday. The nuclear-powered robot will test technologies astronauts need on the red planet.
The nuclear-powered rover will roam Mars' Jezero Crater, where some of the planet's oldest rock is …