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Space success: India ushers in 2024 by orbiting XPoSat successfully
Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh)India on Monday ushered in the New Year in a grand manner by orbiting i…
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National Space Day: Here’s the beginner’s guide to astrophotography and sky watching in India
Ever wanted to capture the cosmos? There's no better time than India's first-ever National Space Da…
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Scientists uncover enormous cosmic structure containing a whopping 20 galaxies!
The "Cosmic Vine" stands out as an exceptionally lengthy and vast structure, surpassing the size of…
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Can you name these new space trash constellations? 10 new signs highlight consequences of space garbage
Each of these ten "trash constellations" represent a different consequence of space pollution. "The…
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Galactic gold rush: Astronomers discover 49 new galaxies in less than 3 hours!
Dubbed the ‘49ers’ in homage to the California gold rush miners of 1849, these newfound galaxies ha…
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7 Easter eggs in the images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are totally new to astronomy
An astronomer points out hidden sights in NASA's new images, from previously invisible star cluster…
Marianne Guenot,Morgan McFall…
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NASA releases first batch of images from the James Webb Space Telescope, ushering in a new era in space
After decades of development, the James Webb Space Telescope is now capturing light from 400 millio…
Paola Rosa-Aquino,Morgan McFa…
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Watch live as Biden reveals the first full-color image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
NASA's new space telescope is 100 times more powerful than Hubble, with the ability to peer further…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's first full-color image from the James Webb Space Telescope peers further back in time than any prior infrared lens, revealing 13 billion years of galaxies
The James Webb Space Telescope captured galaxies from more than 13 billion years ago in stunning in…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Paola R…
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The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope has to unfold itself in space — a nail-biting maneuver NASA's never attempted
Launching NASA's most valuable observatory is stressful enough, but Webb must also unfold itself in…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Researchers successfully grew plants in Apollo-era lunar soil. Their work could inform future space farmers.
Plants grown in moon dirt showed signs of stress, were smaller, and grew more slowly than their cou…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Scientists spotted jets of hot gas whizzing out of a supermassive black hole at the heart of a nearby galaxy
Authors of a new study reveal how they imaged plasma jets shooting out of a black hole nestled insi…
Aylin Woodward
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The most detailed map yet of all dark matter in the universe reveals cosmic voids where the laws of physics seem not to apply
By imaging 226 million galaxies, astronomers have created the largest map ever of dark matter, whic…
Aylin Woodward
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A car-size asteroid flew within 1,830 miles of Earth over the weekend — the closest pass ever — and we didn't see it coming
The asteroid, known as 2020 GQ or ZTF0DxQ, flew so close to Earth that it's now the closest known e…
Dave Mosher,Morgan McFall-Joh…
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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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SpaceX asked a major European astronomy group for a meeting after it published a concerning paper about Starlink's effects on telescopes
In general Williams said ESO coordinates contact with commercial space companies through working gr…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites could make astronomy on Earth 'impossible' and create a space-junk nightmare, some scientists warn
"A 5% failure rate is actually better than most historical constellations, particularly for this si…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA is developing plans to build an enormous, Arecibo-like telescope inside a crater on the moon
NASA researchers are plotting out how robots could build a radio telescope inside a moon crater. It…