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SpaceX Dragon capsule delivers science and supplies to space station

A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft delivered 6,500 pounds of science and supplies to the International Space Station on Sunday, May…

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Watch an asteroid the size of a blue whale hurtle towards Earth live online May 18

The livestream will begin at 3:45 p.m. EDT on May 18, bringing near real time views of the asteroid from…

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Giant radio telescope sees Artemis 2 astronauts on Orion flying around the moon. ‘There are 4 people in those pixels.’

A giant radio telescope in West Virginia tracked Artemis 2's Orion spacecraft around the moon for five days, gathering precise…

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NASA releases final RFP for Mars communications orbiter

NASA has released the final request for proposals for a Mars telecommunications system, confirming requirements that limit the companies that…

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York Space defends growth strategy as SDA programs are reshaped

Company executives acknowledge ‘investor confusion’ as Space Force reorganizes York’s primary customer, the Space Development Agency

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Get $341 off the limited X edition of the Vaonis Vespera II at Walmart

The Vespera II X edition features a sleek, transparent shell and has internal temperature sensors for optimized deep sky observation.

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With the Vespera III and Vespera Pro 2, telescope-maker Vaonis unveils its sharpest optics yet

They boast a new optical design for sharper images and host a bunch of upgraded features to make stargazing a…

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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 210 — ESCAPADES at Mars

On Episode 210 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Dr. Robert Lillis of the…

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Space Force awards Northrop Grumman $398 million satellite contract

The company will build a communications satellite to test protected communications technologies for contested environments

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What If the Universe Had No Beginning? Part 1: A Wave Function for the Universe

The equations of general relativity give up at the singularity. Decades before Stephen Hawking dared to guess what came before,…

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