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Starship Super Heavy Breezes Through Wind Tunnel Testing at NASA Ames

A 1.2% scale model of the Super Heavy rocket that will launch the Starship human landing system to the Moon…

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A Starry View

ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Scholz, K. Muzic, A. Langeveld, R. Jayawardhana NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has infrared vision…

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These 2 monster black holes may be the closest pair ever discovered (video)

The tag team of NASA space telescopes Hubble and Chandra has demonstrated that two is definitely better than one when…

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U.S. military investing in reentry vehicles for space-to-Earth cargo delivery

Two California-based companies, Inversion Space and Outpost Space, have secured more than $100 million in defense and private investments under…

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Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap

5 min readVoyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap A model of NASA’s Voyager spacecraft. The twin Voyagers have been…

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A Stellar Flyby Jumbled Up the Outer Solar System

An ancient passerby may have visited the Sun and inadvertently helped shape the Solar System into what it is today.…

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Legendary actor and ‘Star Wars” voice of Darth Vader, James Earl Jones dies at 93

An obituary for legendary actor James Earl Jones.

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Interlune reveals details of quest to bring home lunar resources

SAN FRANCISCO – Without context, Interlune’s plan to extract Helium-3 from lunar regolith to fulfill terrestrial demand sounds improbable. Even…

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Why space is the next frontier to accelerate medical research

Early Tuesday morning, Polaris Dawn flew through the atmosphere, taking its four crewmembers to the highest altitude humans have experienced…

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Chang’e-6 orbiter turns up at Sun-Earth Lagrange point after moon sampling mission

HELSINKI — The orbiter for China’s Chang’e-6 lunar far side sample return mission is now at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange…

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