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NASA’s Instruments Capture Sharpest Image of Earth’s Radiation Belt

4 min read NASA’s Instruments Capture Sharpest Image of Earth’s Radiation Belt From Aug. 19-20, ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) Juice…

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Perseverance Finds a Strange Black-and-White Striped Rock on Mars

The hits just keep on coming from the Mars Perseverance rover. It’s exploring Jezero Crater on the Red Planet, looking…

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Was the Moon Captured?

The general consensus is that Theia crashed into Earth billions of years ago and led to the formation of the…

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The ESO Releases the Most Detailed Infrared Map of our Galaxy Ever Made

Despite decades of large-scale optical surveys, there are still mysteries about the Milky Way galaxy that astronomers are eager to…

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SpaceX, NASA ‘go’ for 1st astronaut launch to ISS from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station pad

NASA and SpaceX cleared their Crew-9 astronaut flight to the International Space Station for launch, a Sept. 28 liftoff that…

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Watch spectacular Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS rise during the early hours of Sept. 28 with this free livestream

Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will reach perihelion — and if it survives its close call with the sun, we may…

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Lego Ideas submissions Lunar Landscape, Space Projection Telescope and Voyager 1’s Pale Blue Dot need to be made into real sets

These three space-themed submissions on Lego Ideas have captured our attention, and deserve to be on store shelves.

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Chinese rocket launches 8 satellites to orbit from ship at sea (video, photos)

A Chinese Smart Dragon-3 rocket launched from a sea-based platform on Sept. 23, carrying eight remote-sensing satellites to orbit.

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China’s CAS Space launches 5 satellites with its 4th rocket (video)

Commercial Chinese rocket maker CAS Space completed its fourth solid rocket launch on Tuesday (Sept. 24), sending five satellites to…

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The Science of the Perfect Cup for Coffee

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Research into phase-change material (PCM) options for NASA helped one…

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