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By Watching the Sun, Astronomers are Learning More about Exoplanets

Watching the Olympics recently and the amazing effort of the hammer throwers was a wonderful demonstration of the radial velocity…

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Coronal Loops-Digital Art Combination Captures Power of the Sun, Rendered by Andrew McCarthy

Our Sun is one of the most fascinating objects in the universe and photographing it with specialized equipment to capture…

2 years ago

SpaceX launches back-to-back Falcon 9 rockets within 65 minutes and aces 2 landings days after a failed booster touchdown (video)

SpaceX launched two Falcon 9 rockets in just over an hour early Saturday (Aug. 31) and nailed back-to-back booster landings…

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Estimating the Basic Settings of the Universe

The Standard Model describes how the Universe has evolved at large scale. There are six numbers that define the model…

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Rocket Lab’s Mars probes reach launch site ahead of 1st flight on Blue Origin New Glenn rocket (photos)

The twin ESCAPADE satellites have arrived in Florida for the highly anticipated inaugural flight of Blue Origin's New Glenn megarocket…

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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 126 —Danger! Rogue Planets!

On Episode 126 of This Week In Space, Rod and Tariq talk with Rosalba Perna about errant planets.

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SpaceX resumes Falcon 9 launches after brief FAA grounding

SpaceX resumed launches of its Falcon 9 rocket early Aug. 31 after the Federal Aviation Administration ended a brief grounding…

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Dark Matter Could Have Driven the Growth of Early Supermassive Black Holes

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) keeps finding supermassive black holes (SMBH) in the early Universe. They’re in active galactic…

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If Gravitons Exist, this Experiment Might Find Them

There are four fundamental forces in the Universe; strong, weak, electromagnetic and gravity. Quantum theory explains three of the four…

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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket can return to flight, FAA says

SpaceX can resume flying its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration announced this evening (Aug. 30), two…

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