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Lunar Codex: digitised works of 30,000 artists to be archived on moon
Collection to include images, objects, magazines, books, podcasts, movies and music from 157 countries
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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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2-faced white dwarf star surprises astronomers
A daily update by email. Science news, great photos, sky alerts.
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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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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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James Webb Space Telescope finds possible evidence of dark stars
A trio of astrophysicists, two from Colgate University and the third from the University of Texas, has found evidence of dark stars courtesy of data from the James Webb Space Telescope. In their study, reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Cosmin Ilie, Jillian Paulin and Katherine Freese, analyzed three galaxies spotted by the JWST and how they might relate to dark stars.
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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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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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Solving the RIME deployment mystery
When the RIME antenna on ESA’s Juice mission failed to deploy a few days after launch, the engineering teams faced the mighty challenge to understand the fault and rectify it. At stake was a chance to see inside Jupiter’s mysterious icy moons.
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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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NASA makes contact with Mars helicopter after long silence | Digital Trends
NASA has restored contact with its Mars helicopter after 63 days of silence. The communications dropout, however, wasn't unexpected.
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Gravitational-wave background of the Universe
International consortium provides evidence of long gravitational waves, detected through a 15-year pulsar study.
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July supermoon: When and how to see the buck moon
The buck moon will rise on Monday, July 3. It will be the first supermoon of the year, appearing brighter and slightly bigger than any other full moon in 2023 so far.
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What's next for Europe's Euclid 'dark universe' telescope after stunning SpaceX launch?
A new space observatory is flying across the void after a dramatic launch atop a SpaceX rocket Saturday (July 1), but its journey has just begun. The European Euclid space telescoe began its long journey to deep space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 11:11 a.m. EDT (1511 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Florida's Space Coast.
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Four Volunteers Have Locked Themselves in a Simulated Martian Habitat for a Year
On Sunday, four researchers donned black jumpsuits and entered into a red world where they will spend a year living and working in a simulated Martian environment. NASA’s CHAPEA habitat, or Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog, welcomed its volunteer guests this week, who are set to spend 378 days in the enclosed, Mars-like world to help the space agency prepare for future missions to the Red Planet.
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