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Makenzie Lystrup will step down as head of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center on Aug. 1. She'll be the second NASA center director to depart in just a two-month span.
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Lystrup will be the second NASA center director to depart in just a two-month span.
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Nearly 300 current and former NASA employees — including astronauts, engineers and scientists — have signed the "Voyager Declaration," a formal statement raising alarm over recent actions and steep budget cuts proposed by the Trump administration.
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The signatories warn that political interference and abrupt budget reductions could jeopardize decades of progress in space exploration, aeronautics and climate science.
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The second Predator: Badlands trailer is full of alien beasts, gorgeous sci-fi vistas, and a Yautja hero who finds an unlikely ally in a synthetic.
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The second Predator: Badlands trailer is full of alien beasts, gorgeous sci-fi vistas, and a Yautja hero who finds an unlikely ally in a synthetic.
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The mission will blast off on a Falcon 9 rocket with three other small satellites that will act as technology demonstrators.
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TRACERS will watch magnetic field lines snapping and reconnecting as solar storms overwhelm them.
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A giant parachute built for the beleaguered European ExoMars mission has aced a drop test in the Arctic stratosphere.
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"We are happy to confirm that we have a parachute design that can work on Mars — an ambitious system with the largest parachute ever to be flown outside Earth"
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Justin Sun, the billionaire founder of the blockchain platform Tron, is one of the six people who will fly to suborbital space on Blue Origin's next tourist mission.
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Sun, founder of the Tron blockchain, paid $28 million for a seat on Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle back in 2021.
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The long-serving space telescope saw the third interloper to enter the solar system from beyond its limits late on Monday morning (July 21).
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The long-serving space telescope saw the third interloper to enter the solar system from beyond its limits late on Monday morning (July 21).
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SpaceX aborted the planned launch of two of SES' O3b mPOWER communications satellites just before liftoff on Monday evening (July 21). The company will try again tomorrow (July 22).
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The company will try to launch the SES O3b mPOWER mission again on Tuesday (July 22).
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New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are painting a new picture of Jupiter's moon Europa and revealing the hidden chemistry of the icy moon's interior.
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"The chemistry in this location is really strange and exciting."
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Our expert travel guide to the 2026 total solar eclipse in Greenland, Iceland and Spain is packed with insider tips, travel advice and skywatching secrets from seasoned eclipse chasers.
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Our expert travel guide to the 2026 total solar eclipse in Greenland, Iceland and Spain is packed with insider tips, travel advice and skywatching secrets from seasoned eclipse chasers.
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U.K. scientists plan to send a small spacecraft to the moon's far side to detect faint radio signals emitted shortly after the Big Bang.
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"It's like trying to hear that whisper while a loud concert is playing next door."
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NASA recently took its new X-59 "quiet' supersonic jet for a drive during taxi tests, one of the final hurdles between the aircraft and its first flight.
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The aircraft is undergoing its final round of tests before it finally takes to the sky for the first time.
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The Orion Nebula, the Pleiades and the Hyades open clusters could represent the different phases of star clusters: baby, adolescent and elderly.
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"It appears that there is a preferred physical environment in which stars form when they evolve within these clouds."
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Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same time, challenging current models of our solar system’s evolution.
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A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system.
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Propstore will also trot out this rare relic for a 3-city press tour this August
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Propstore will also trot out this rare relic for a 3-city press tour this August
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Astronomers have finally imaged the long theorized companion star of Betelgeuse, solving a mystery regarding its dimming that has persisted for millennia.
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"Papers that predicted Betelgeuse's companion believed that no one would likely ever be able to image it."
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Germany's Isar and RFA, France's Maiaspace, Spain's PLD Space, and UK-based Orbex have been pre-selected for ESA's €169 million launcher initiative.
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The ESA competition aims to foster independent access to space by supporting emerging small- and medium-lift rocket developers
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"There's some great targets in the southern hemisphere, including the Carina Nebula."
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"There's some great targets in the southern hemisphere, including the Carina Nebula."
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Astronomers have discovered a baby exoplanet "spiral architect" carving complex swirls into a disk of gas and dust around the young star HD 135344B.
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"We will never witness the formation of Earth, but here, around a young star 440 light-years away, we may be watching a planet come into existence in real time."
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Our planet has been rotating at its fastest since records began in 1973.
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Our planet has been rotating at its fastest since records began in 1973.
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