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You'll travel nearly a trillion miles in your lifetime, even if you never leave home. Here's how.
Everything in the universe is moving, and fast.
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Mission to the Moon: Who will win Russian and India's race to the lunar South Pole?
Two spacecraft – one built by India and the other by Russia – are hurtling on missions towards our Moon by very different routes. Does it matter which will win?
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A rocket with a lunar landing craft blasts off on Russia’s first moon mission in nearly 50 years
A rocket carrying a lunar landing craft has blasted off on Russia’s first moon mission in nearly 50 years, racing to land on Earth’s satellite ahead of an Indian spacecraft.
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Planetary defense test deflected an asteroid but unleashed a boulder swarm
A UCLA-led study of NASA’s DART mission determined that the strategy presents previously unanticipated risks.
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Biden decides to keep Space Command in Colorado, rejecting move to Alabama
President Joe Biden has decided to keep the U.S. Space Command headquarters in Colorado, overturning a last-ditch decision by the Trump administration to move it to Alabama.
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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launches world’s most massive communications satellite [Updated]
SpaceX has again launched a competitor's satellite, this time a 10-ton behemoth.
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A mysterious interstellar radio signal has been blinking on and off every 22 minutes for over 30 years
Astronomers have detected a long-running source of slow, repeating radio pulses that can’t be explained by current theories – but it’s probably not aliens.
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2-faced white dwarf star surprises astronomers
A daily update by email. Science news, great photos, sky alerts.
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Two-faced star with helium and hydrogen sides baffles astronomers
White dwarf nicknamed Janus could be in transition from one element dominating at its surface to the other
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A skyscraper-size asteroid flew closer to Earth than the moon — and scientists didn't notice until 2 days later
A stealthy asteroid the size of a 20-story building hid in the sun's glare before zooming uncomfortably close to Earth on July 13. Scientists didn't notice until July 15.
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World's biggest radio telescope could tease out secrets of dark matter, universe's 1st galaxies
Studying the hydrogen fingerprint from just after the Big Bang could allow researchers to kill 'two birds with one stone!'
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For the first time in 51 years, NASA is training astronauts to fly to the Moon
“They’ve got a great adventure ahead of them.”
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Life on Venus? Intriguing molecule phosphine spotted in planet's clouds again
There's a new chapter in the Venus phosphine debate.
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The Webb telescope just offered a revelatory view of humanity’s distant past
Talk about the circle of life. It is here. It is there. It is everywhere.
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Chandrayaan-3: India's historic Moon mission lifts off successfully
With Chandrayaan-3, India aims to be the first to land near the Moon's little-explored south pole.
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket engine explodes during testing
It's a destructive setback with potential ramifications for the company's customer United Launch Alliance as well as Blue Origin's own rocket New Glenn.
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James Webb Space Telescope spots violent collision between neutron stars
The telescope traced an incredibly bright gamma-ray burst to a kilonova, a dramatic event believed to forge heavy elements like gold.
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Scientists prove Elon Musk's Starlink satellites are interfering with ability to study the cosmos
Scientists, looking deep into space, have long voiced their concerns that satellites are encroaching on their ability to study the cosmos.
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Astro-tourism – chasing eclipses, meteor showers and elusive dark skies from Earth
With two eclipses and several meteor showers coming up, an astronomy professor shares travel tips for viewing astronomical phenomena.
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Buck full supermoon illuminates skies around the world – video
The first supermoon of 2023 is named after the antlers of male deers which are growing at this time of year
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