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Don’t wait for the full moon: Here’s when the moon looks best through a telescope

Long before the full moon rises, shifting sunlight transforms the lunar surface into one of the sky's best telescope targets.

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NASA unveils sweeping reorganization

NASA announced one of its biggest reorganizations in recent memory May 22, combining mission directorates and reshuffling personnel. The post…

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Keeping NASA Flying: Ground Crews Ensure Aircraft Readiness

4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA crew chief Walt Kondracki checks an F-15 aircraft Tuesday,…

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Supermassive Black Holes Can Render Exoplanets Uninhabitable at Great Distances

Life on Earth relies on energy from astrophysical sources. But what if the astrophysical source isn't a star, but a…

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NASA to Compete Contract for Jet Propulsion Laboratory Management

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.Credit: NASA NASA announced plans Friday to compete the next contract for managing and…

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Leveraging AUKUS and southern geography: building Australia’s dual-use space infrastructure for strategic resilience

The Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) Site 1 in Western Australia is already delivering early tracking data for AUKUS…

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SpaceX IPO filing casts Starlink Mobile as future wireless challenger

SpaceX’s IPO prospectus casts Starlink Mobile as more than a remote-area backup, with next-generation direct-to-smartphone services designed to be “on…

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Ground equipment problem scrubs Starship launch attempt

SpaceX called off the first attempt to launch the newest version of its Starship vehicle May 21 because of a…

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SpaceX’s 1st Starship V3 megarocket launch scrubbed at last minute. Sorry, Nicki Minaj

SpaceX's new "V3" Starship megarocket was supposed to fly for the first time ever on Thursday (May 21), but technical…

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Both Hemispheres of 3I/ATLAS Observed Simultaneously by JUICE and Europa Clipper

The Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) instruments aboard ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft and NASA’s Europa Clipper…

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