The vastness of space can make trying to understand the relative mass of celestial bodies brain…
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Crypto scammers flooded YouTube with sham SpaceX Starship livestreams
YouTube is flooded with fake livestream accounts airing looped videos of “Elon Musk” supposedly promoting crypto…
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Voyager, Chandrayaan, Curiosity: How do spacecraft get their names?
Somehow, when you talk about space exploration, it seems like all the human-made projects have these…
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‘Space headaches’ could be a real pain for astronauts
Space travel is certainly not for the faint of heart, for many reasons including its effects…
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15 captivating photos of auroras seen from space
An aurora is a dazzling spectacle to witness down here on Earth, but from space, you…
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‘Alien’ signal was likely a very big truck
There’s no doubt an extremely bright fireball careened through the atmosphere north of Papua New Guinea…
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How lightning on exoplanets could make it harder to find alien life
We’re used to thunder and lightning here on Earth. But what might they be like on…
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NASA and Google Earth Engine team up with researchers to help save tigers
Less than 4,500 tigers remain in the world, according to the International Union for the Conservation…
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This hot Jupiter exoplanet unexpectedly hangs out with a super-Earth
Our solar system has a suite of eight planets—rocky Mars and Earth, the ice giants, and…
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A super pressure balloon built by students is cruising Earth’s skies to find dark matter
High altitude balloons have drawn a lot of fire lately. In February, the US military shot…
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See hot plasma bubble on the sun’s surface in powerful closeup images
Just in time for the light-filled days before the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, the…
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NASA chooses Blue Origin to build Artemis V lunar lander
On Friday, NASA awarded Blue Origin a contract to provide a lunar lander for the Artemis…
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