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Venus' 'missing' giant impact craters may be hiding in plain sight

Venus' wrinkled, deformed "tesserae" terrain may be ancient impact features the size of continents, a new study suggests.

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Sun erupts with powerful X2.3 solar flare, triggers radio blackouts (video)

A X2.3 solar flare Wednesday morning (Nov. 6), leading to shortwave radio blackouts for parts of the southern hemisphere.

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'Fastest-feeding' black hole of the early universe found! But does it break the laws of physics?

The hungriest known black hole in the early universe has been found, thanks to teamwork between NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory.

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SpaceX targeting Nov. 18 for next Starship megarocket launch

SpaceX's Starship megarocket will fly for the sixth time ever on Nov. 18, on a test flight that will include another dramatic booster catch.

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Health Concerns Arise After Photos Of Two Boeing Astronauts Stuck In Space Are Released

"She looks depressed, being stuck in a pressurized tube." The post Health Concerns Arise After Photos Of Two Boeing Astronauts Stuck In Space Are Released first appeared on Bored Panda.

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US military test-launches unarmed nuclear missile on election night (video)

The United States military test-launched an unarmed nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Nov. 5, 2024.

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Go Centaur! Space Force stands up rocket stage at Los Angeles base

A Centaur III propellant tank and its rocket engine stand on display at Los Angeles Air Force Base as a testament to its service to both the United States' military and civilian space missions.

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New NASA coronagraph will measure temperature, speed of solar wind from ISS

We're about to learn more about the solar wind, thanks to NASA's Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX), which just arrived at the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft.

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NASA's Chandra X-ray spacecraft finds 'danger zones' around stars

Using NASA's Chandra spacecraft, astronomers have found "danger zones" for worlds where planet-birthing disks are blasted with high-energy radiation from massive young stars and rapidly disintegrate.

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Supernova hides in new Hubble Telescope galaxy 'light show' image (photo)

A celestial light show illuminates a distant spiral galaxy, where a hidden supernova briefly outshines its stellar neighbors in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

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NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope sees 'knots' blasting from nearby black hole jets

A fresh analysis of decades-old X-ray black hole jet data has revealed bright, lumpy features with mysterious speed changes.

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World's 1st wooden satellite arrives at ISS for key orbital test

LignoSat could help change the way we build satellites.

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Satellite survives impact with object in space, takes selfie to prove it (photos)

The 6mm hole was discovered accidentally in footage from an onboard camera.

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Astronomers spot unusually synchronized star formation in ancient galaxy for 1st time

An old galaxy reveals clusters of young stars that have formed in an unusually synchronized fashion, challenging the idea that star formation declines as galaxies age.

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe to fly by Venus today before historic sun encounter

NASA's Parker Solar Probe swoops in for its seventh and final swing past Venus ahead of its history-making encounter with the sun on Christmas Eve.

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Why can't active NASA astronauts endorse US presidential candidates?

NASA astronauts can vote from space, but why can't they endorse political candidates? As it turns out, U.S. federal law specifically prohibits them from doing so.

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Newfound dead star spins record-breaking 716 times a second, explodes with thermonuclear blasts

The neutron star 4U 1820-30 is one of the fastest spinning bodies in the universe, spinning at 716 times a second and erupting like an atomic bomb, NASA's NICER telescope has found.

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'Vega continues to be unusual:' Lack of planets around young star puzzles astronomers

A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega has found a surprising lack of planets.

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Olivia Rodrigo is right: you shouldn’t date anyone who wants to go into space. But I have other red flags

The pop star has reminded us to shun would-be astronauts such as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, writes Arwa Mahdawi. But what about people who hang toilet paper the wrong way?

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Sharp 'lobster vision:' China's Einstein Probe space telescope already making discoveries during commissioning phase

China's Einstein Probe, an X-ray telescope in Earth orbit, has already made several discoveries during its initial commissioning phase.

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Asteroid-mining company AstroForge gets 1st-ever FCC license for commercial deep-space mission

AstroForce has received a commercial license for operating and communicating with a mission headed to a near-Earth asteroid, the first to be granted for beyond Earth orbit.

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SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule arrives at ISS on 31st resupply mission (video)

Dragon completed its docking at 10:04 a.m. EST.

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India delays its 1st-ever Gaganyaan astronaut launch to 2026

India plans to launch astronauts to Earth orbit no sooner than 2026, roughly a year past the previously known timeline, following a series of uncrewed flight tests slated to begin in December.

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How do you vote from space? NASA astronauts cast 2024 election ballots from ISS

There are four Americans currently living in space, and each has had the opportunity to add their voice to the more than 160 million other Americans able to participate in the 2024 Presidential election.

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NASA's 15-year-old NEOWISE asteroid hunter meets fiery doom by burning up in Earth's atmosphere

NEOWISE spent nearly 15 years in space across two missions.

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