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Mercury Completes the Planetary Parade at Dusk

One planet was missing from the sunset lineup… until now. Perhaps you’ve seen the news headlines admonishing sky watchers to…

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Huge Release of Type 1a Supernovae Data

Type 1a supernovae are extremely powerful events that occur in binary systems containing at least one white dwarf star -…

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Stunning 80 Megapixel Image of a Stellar Nursery

RCW 38 is a molecular cloud of ionized hydrogen (HII) roughly 5,500 light-years from Earth in the direction of the…

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Construction of Roman Continues With the Addition of its Sunshade

NASA continues to progress with the development of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (RST), the next-generation observatory with a…

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Hydrogels Could Be Ideal Radiation Protection For Astronauts

Hydrogel protection could be crucial for safe human space exploration. It’s a key problem that will need to be addressed,…

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A New Study Reveals How Dark Matter Dominated the Early Universe

During the 1970s, while probing distant galaxies to determine their mass, size, and other characteristics, astronomers noticed something interesting. When…

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Europa Clipper Tests its Star Tracker Navigation System

On October 14th, 2024, NASA's Europa Clipper mission launched atop a Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the…

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Space Junk Could Re-Enter the Atmosphere in Busy Flight Areas

In the more than 60 years since the Space Age began, humans have sent more than 6,740 rockets to space.…

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Water Arrived in the Final Stages of Earth's Formation

Roughly 4.6 billion years ago, the Sun was born from the gas and dust of a nebula that underwent gravitational…

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A Recent Impact on Mars Shook the Planet to Its Mantle

New research suggests an impact recently rattled Mars deeper than thought. Something really rang the Red Planet’s bell. Research involving…

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