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January 15, 2026
NASA chief Jared Isaacman on Thursday said the experience of the returned Crew-11 will be used to prepare for future human space flight—including to the moon
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April 17, 2024
NASA is planning to repair NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station, during a spacewalk later this year. It will be the fourth science observatory in orbit serviced by astronauts. In May 2023, scientists discovered that NICER had developed a “light leak.” Unwanted sunlight was entering the instrument […]
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July 18, 2024
Astronauts still survive on freeze-dried meals. Could better food, aided by cooking gadgets designed to be used in microgravity, help them to thrive?
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January 18, 2024
The strange entity has a mass between that of a neutron star and a black hole. It’s either one or the other or something else entirely.
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September 5, 2025
The fast radio burst came from 130 million light-years away. That proximity allowed an in-depth search for what produced the mysterious signal.
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May 29, 2025
A celestial object some 15,000 light-years away is emitting bright flashes of radio and X-rays that scientists are struggling to explain
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April 11, 2012
Astronomers at the University of Manchester believe they have found the answer to the mystery of a powerful "superwind" which causes the death of stars.
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July 7, 2026
Probing the dawn of the cosmos for clues to how the first galaxies and supermassive black holes formed is no easy feat
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May 16, 2012
Astronomers of University of Helsinki can now explain why the period of Algol has increased by about 0.017 days. The period increase during the past three millennia could have been caused by the observed mass transfer between the two members of this binary. In fact, this would be the first observation that confirms the period increase of Algol and it also gives an estimate of the mass transfer rate. The ancient Egyptians have thus made accurate measurements that provide useful constraints for…
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January 11, 2012
A team of astronomers led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology has discovered the three smallest confirmed planets ever detected outside our solar system. The three planets, which all orbit a single star, are smaller than Earth and appear to be rocky. Their existence suggests that the galaxy could be teeming with similarly rocky planets—and that there's a good chance that many are in the so-called habitable zone, where liquid water and possibly life could exist.
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