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Astronomers Have Found a Star with a Hot Jupiter and a Cold Super Jupiter in Orbit

Located in the constellation Ursa Major, roughly 300 light-years from Earth, is the Sun-like star HD 118203 (Liesma). In 2006,…

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Rivada says Lockheed deal boosts investor confidence in constellation

Rivada Space Networks CEO Declan Ganley said Sept. 17 the sale of satellite supplier Terran Orbital to Lockheed Martin is…

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Future Gravitational Wave Observatories Could See the Earliest Black Hole Mergers in the Universe

In February 2016, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) confirmed they made the first-ever detection of gravitational waves…

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Measuring Moon Dust to Fight Air Pollution

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) While astronaut Gene Cernan was on the lunar surface during…

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NASA Selects Lunar Relay Contractor for Near Space Network Services

Credit: NASA NASA has awarded a contract to Intuitive Machines, LLC of Houston, to support the agency’s lunar relay systems…

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NASA Selects Lockheed Martin to Develop Lightning Mapper for NOAA

Credit: NASA NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton,…

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SpaceX launches 2 European navigation satellites, lands rocket (video)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched two European navigation satellites tonight (Sept. 17) and then landed safely, acing its 22nd…

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NASA Marshall to Present 2024 Small Business Awards Sept. 19

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Credit: NASA NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama,…

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Could You Find What A Lunar Crater Is Made Of By Shooting It?

Americans are famously fond of their guns. So it should come as no surprise that a team of NASA scientists…

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There are Plenty of Uses for Powerful Lasers in Space. But Where Should We Put Them?

Is it time for space lasers yet? Almost. As time passes, ideas that were once confined to the realm of…

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