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Iceye raises 1 billion euros to expand SAR satellite systems

Iceye, a Finnish company that develops and operates radar imaging satellites, has raised more than 1 billion euros in a…

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Digging Back in Time in the UAE

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Digging Back in Time in the UAE Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO…

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Scientists propose spraying chemicals into Earth’s magnetic field to protect us from powerful solar storms

Scientists have proposed a spacecraft-based system to actively strengthen Earth's magnetic shield and reduce the impact of powerful solar storms.

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James Webb Space Telescope weighs ‘sleeping giant’ black hole from 10 billion light-years away — and it’s 6 billion times our sun’s mass

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, and with a little help from Einstein, astronomers have "weighed" a sleeping giant, a…

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How NASA Science and Artemis Are Shaping the 2026 FIFA World Cup

Researchers tested soccer balls aboard the International Space Station to study how internal mass affects motion and stability in microgravity.…

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Space Telescopes Are Now Overwhelmed by Satellite Trails

Unfortunately there’s more bad news to report on the clear skies front. A new paper, available in pre-print on arXiv…

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Why Can’t the Universe Be Cyclic? Part 3: The Ekpyrotic Universe and Its Bouncing Branes

The ekpyrotic theory tries to beat inflation with bouncing higher-dimensional branes, no singularity, and a universe that has always existed.…

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Why do Venus and Jupiter meet up in the sky so often? It’s a symptom of a solar system that supports life on Earth

As it turns out, the conditions that set Venus and Jupiter up for their conjunctions in the sky are the…

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FCC lets Amazon Leo miss deployment deadline with temporary spectrum penalty

Amazon no longer faces a July 30 cutoff for deploying half its planned 3,232 broadband satellites, but the reprieve comes…

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Catch Comet 220P McNaught in Outburst

We witnessed a surprise outburst late last week, from a lesser known periodic comet. Posts flashed across message boards late…

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