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The devil may wear Prada, but NASA is taking it to the moon, and possibly Mars. Axiom Space revealed the first flight design of the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) spacesuit, which will be worn by astronauts aboard NASA’s...
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The first chunk of the map created by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid space mission was revealed at the International Astronautical Congress in Milan, Italy. The extremely large mosaic, composed of 208 gigapixels, contains 260...
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October’s full moon will be a “Supermoon,” also known as the Hunter’s Moon, and is the third of four consecutive supermoons this year. Other names for the upcoming Supermoon are the Travel Moon, the Dying Grass Moon, or the Sanguine or...
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SpaceX completed its fifth test flight of its Starship spacecraft and its Super Heavy booster rocket today. Among the objectives for the test flight was the return and catch of the Super Heavy booster by the launch and catch infrastructure...
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Vast, a space startup company, has finalized a design to build the world’s first commercial space station that promises to deliver unparalleled comfort, productivity, and microgravity lab advancements. The US-based space habitation...
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has issued a geomagnetic storm watch for the next two days that could produce an aurora as far south as Alabama, as well as having the potential of disrupting communications, the...
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While NASA searches for signs of life on the Red Planet, its Curiosity rover has found new details about how the ancient Martian climate went from potentially suitable for life, to the inhospitable terrain it’s known as now.
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Astronomers have detected a new class of massive black holes that dwarf even the most supermassive ones found at the center of many galaxies. The James Webb Space Telescope is giving astronomers new insights into how these extremely large...
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As NASA gets closer to returning humans to the Moon, the space agency is also looking at ways of providing shelter for future astronauts on the lunar surface for long-term missions. One idea that is regaining momentum involves feeding...
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A group of astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting the closest single star to Earth’s Sun. The earth-like planet has at least half the mass of Venus, and a year lasts only a little over three Earth days.
Whether it be an alien...
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The 2024 annular solar eclipse is happening tomorrow and will include a ring of fire. While the path of the eclipse will take it mainly through the Southern Hemisphere, those north will still be able to watch via livestream.
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A comet that has not been seen from Earth in 80,000 years is about to make its grand return. Comet 2023 A3, also known as Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, will be observable with the naked eye in the northern hemisphere during two viewing periods, with...
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The historic Polaris Dawn mission was filled with many memorable moments for its crew, including the first-ever commercial spacewalk. So, it is no surprise that crew members were able to capture some epic moments during their time in...
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Astronomers using NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope just made a wild discovery of a “blowtorch-like” jet from a supermassive black hole, and it seems to cause stars to erupt along its trajectory.
Currently, an international group of...
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NASA has a SSPICY take on how to enable commercial inspection of defunct, or inoperable, satellites in low Earth orbit. The Small Spacecraft Propulsion and Inspection Capability (SSPICY) mission will be a precursor to capturing and...
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NASA’s Perseverance rover spotted a striped rock unlike any seen on the Red Planet before. The unusual textures were spotted from a distance by team members as the rover made its way toward the Jezero Crater rim.
The new find is not the...
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Thousands of people in the US Northwest took to social media to share video of a bright fireball streaking across the night sky late Monday (similar to the one that scorched North Carolina's skies earlier this month). Many described the...
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A group of physicists designed a first-of-its-kind experiment to simulate what might happen if a nuclear bomb was detonated near an asteroid approaching Earth. The experiment recorded in nanosecond detail how a very large pulse of...
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NASA’s Webb telescope tells an elliptical and spiral galaxy to say “Cheese!” The image is a composite of images, combining observations from Webb’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) and NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) of a pair of galaxies...
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Astronomers have detected the largest pair of black hole jets ever seen. The pair spans 23-million light-years, or the equivalent to lining up 140 Milky Way galaxies back to back.
According to NASA, supermassive black holes are millions...
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Researchers have come across some evidence suggesting Earth had a ring system around 466 million years ago, which may have been a contributor to the global cooling event known as the Hirnantian Icehouse. The hypothesis comes from plate...
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ATLAS, an asteroid impact early warning system in Hawaii, spotted a small asteroid that will temporarily orbit Earth for the next two months. Asteroid 2024 PT5 is a 10-meter (33-feet) wide space rock that is expected to come as close as 1...
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