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Astronomers just discovered a 9th planet in our solar system for the first time in nearly 170 years
"You can think of them like different hands on the clock," Mike Brown, an astronomer at the Califor…
Jessica Orwig
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An intrepid group of astronomers is the only reason NASA is about to visit the last unexplored world in our solar system
Stern and the others continued arguing the importance of a mission to Pluto. Finally, in the 2003 P…
Kelly Dickerson
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Pluto's discoverer's ashes will be the first human remains to leave the solar system - glued to the side of a space probe
NASA officials attached a small container of a portion of Tombaugh's ashes to the upper deck of the…
Kelly Dickerson
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A company developing Russia's answer to Musk's Starlink says it completed its first tests
Russian company Bureau 1440 said it had completed initial tests of its own laser inter-satellite li…
Thibault Spirlet
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Amazon launches its first internet satellites as Jeff Bezos looks to rival SpaceX's Starlink
The satellites were prototypes for Project Kuiper, Amazon's $10 billion plan to create a constellat…
Polly Thompson
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Amazon launches partnership with rival SpaceX to send competing satellites into orbit
Amazon and SpaceX have entered into a contract to conduct three Falcon 9 launches to support Amazon…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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How antimatter engines could fly humans to other stars in just a few years
Antimatter isn't just a sci-fi trope. Ryan Weed has been working on designing an antimatter propuls…
Adam Barnes
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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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Amazon is switching the rockets used to launch the first 2 of more than 3,000 satellites, delaying lift-off until 2023
Amazon's first two satellites were originally scheduled to launch late this year. Now they'll take …
Stephen Jones
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Satellite internet services like Elon Musk's Starlink won't make giant undersea cables extinct, experts say
Satellite internet constellations are a "game-changer" for rural communities but undersea cables wo…
Kate Duffy
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Amazon has filed an FCC protest against SpaceX's plans for more Starlink internet satellites
SpaceX broke the rules by proposing two Starlink satellite configurations instead of one, Amazon's …
Kate Duffy
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says his letter to shareholders follows one of the toughest economic years in recent memory. Read it in full.
Jassy addressed the company's shareholders on Thursday in the annual letter, saying 2022 had been a…
Sam Tabahriti
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4 experts explain why Elon Musk's plan to colonize Mars is 'romanticized', not 'realistic', 'cosmic vandalism'
SpaceX founder Elon Musk said he plans to have a million people on Mars by 2050. Scientists say tha…
Maiya Focht
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Bitcoin won't be surpassed by competing cryptocurrencies because it is a 'superior' form of money, Fidelity says
The cryptocurrency possesses many "good qualities" of money, including enforceable scarcity and ver…
Carla Mozée
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Pluto was discovered 90 years ago this week. Controversy about its identity rages on.
When he discovered Pluto, Planet X became real - for a time. But in 2003, a world larger than Pluto…
Holly Secon
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SpaceX was approved to fly thousands more satellites at a lower orbit despite pushback from competitors
After a near-miss earlier this month, several other startups said Elon Musk's plan would increase t…
Natasha Dailey
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Amazon to launch a constellation of 3,236 satellites to help people who don't have access to high speed internet
Amazon confirmed its plans in a statement to Business Insider. A spokeswoman said: "Project Kuiper …
Charlie Wood
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SpaceX may want to launch 42,000 internet satellites - about 5 times more spacecraft than humanity has ever flown
That's according to Caleb Henry at Space News, who on Tuesday wrote that SpaceX, founded by tech mo…
Dave Mosher
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These new photos from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft were captured farther from Earth than any image ever taken
But NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has now broken that record, sending back several photos from the…
Kevin Loria
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NASA just woke up a nuclear-powered probe 1 billion miles beyond Pluto - and it's approaching the farthest object humans have ever tried to visit
Researchers aren't quite sure of Ultima Thule's exact dimensions. Because it's so dark at roughly 4…