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Within the Virgo Cluster, lies NGC 4698, a spiral galaxy roughly 55 million light-years away whose inner workings defy the expected order of things. Newly released images from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal a galaxy that is spinning in...
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Using NASA archives and ground-based observatories, astronomers have discovered Elias 2-24 b, a gas giant under one million years old that has just become the youngest exoplanet ever detected.
Located about 450 light-years from Earth...
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Astronomers have spotted a sizeable, freshly formed impact crater on the Moon, providing an unprecedented look at how violent cosmic collisions reshape lunar geology in real time.
Official deemed McGetchin, the new crater spans roughly...
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Up till now, American defense officials have carefully danced around the question of military hardware in orbit, framing military space activity in terms of passive reconnaissance, satellite protection, and defensive resilience. This week...
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IBM and NASA have teamed up to launch the NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model, an open-source AI built to analyze petabytes of observations collected over decades of moon missions. Hosted publicly on Hugging Face alongside its GitHub codebase...
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Astronomers studying the 3I/ATLAS comet have uncovered clues suggesting the interstellar visitor originated in a deep-freeze environment far older than our solar system.
When 3I/ATLAS zipped through the inner solar system, it became...
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The joint European and Japanese BepiColombo Mercury mission that left Earth some eight years ago has finally entered its arrival phase, shedding its propulsion module to begin a months-long orbital insertion of its two science...
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A major discovery reveals that Mars is fundamentally asymmetrical deep beneath its surface, with its southern interior burning between 200 and 400 degrees Celsius (392 to 752 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter than its northern...
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NASA’s newest flagship observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, has launched as scheduled on a mission to map the universe, hunt for distant planets, and unravel the cosmic mysteries of dark energy and dark matter.
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A freshly released gallery from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (as well as other telescopes) showcases 16 composite images of the cosmos, spotlighting colorful views of spiral, elliptical, and irregular galaxies.
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A $30 million rescue effort has come to an end, dooming NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Telescope to a fiery atmospheric reentry later this year. The observatory had previously suffered major attitude control malfunctions and went into an...
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Newly released NASA orbital photos have revealed the final impact spot of the derelict SpaceX rocket stage on the Moon, offering scientists a better look at how artificial collisions can shape the lunar surface.
The Moon obtained a...
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Astronomers have uncovered concrete evidence of the earliest known galactic merger in the Milky Way's history, whereby our home galaxy devoured a dwarf galaxy nearly 12 billion years ago to fuel its initial growth spurts.
Detailed in a...
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NASA is funding the development of small, lighter-than-air "aerobots" equipped with solid-state atmospheric ion thrusters designed to swarm and navigate the unexplored, subterranean cave networks of Saturn's largest moon, Titan...
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For the first time, astronomers have discovered a globular cluster stellar stream outside the Milky Way, giving scientists a new way to map invisible dark matter in distant galaxies.
Located approximately 115 million light-years from...
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Another group of astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are adding more proof to the existence of a brand-new class of celestial object dubbed the “black hole star.” The team believes that this object could solve an...
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Scientists have released the largest 2D color map of the universe ever created, complete with a high-res view of nearly four billion celestial objects spanning three-quarters of the night sky.
Produced by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic...
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The intrepid James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a stunning infrared view of a dynamic planetary nebula roughly 4,200 light-years away in the constellation Gemini (NGC 2392), with its latest images revealing intricate dusty...
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Using the world’s most powerful solar observatory, astronomers have captured the sharpest images of the Sun’s surface ever, uncovering a dynamic, microscopic fluid process that addresses some of solar physics’ longest-standing...
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SpaceX set off some financial fireworks in the markets after reporting a surge in quarterly revenue alongside an exclusive hardware commitment with NVIDIA, even as rising capital expenditures temporarily weighed down its stock.
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Mark your calendars and prepare your travel itineraries, because on August 2, 2027, some parts of the world will witness a special solar eclipse. Although almost no one in the U.S. will see it (unless you live in the north-eastern part of...
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A leftover three-ton SpaceX rocket stage is set for an unavoidable collision course with the Moon at a speed of 5,400 mph (or seven times the speed of sound) in the early hours this Wednesday, August 5.
Blue Ghost lander (Credit:...
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