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NASA Goddard Center Director quits as agency staffers issue dissent letter
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Live coverage: SpaceX to launch NASA’s TRACERS satellites on rideshare Falcon 9 rocket launch from Vandenberg SFB
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Hubble spots interstellar invader Comet 3I/ATLAS for the first time
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NASA hacks Jupiter probe camera to recover vital images
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Jupiter probe: NASA has repaired broken JunoCam several times by heating it up
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Hundreds of Nasa workers rebuke ‘arbitrary’ Trump cuts in scathing letter
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Hundreds of NASA Employees Condemn Trump Administration Cuts in Public Letter
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Safety is at Risk Warn NASA Staffers in Protest Letter
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Implementing Trump's proposed NASA cuts illegal before Congress passes budget, Democrats say
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NASA cuts endanger safety, employees warn in open letter to Trump admin
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Europe tests largest-ever Mars parachute in the stratosphere above the Arctic (video)
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SpaceX scrub launch of SES O3b mPOWER mission Monday evening
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LIGO Detects Black Hole Smashup So Extreme It’s Bending Einstein’s Rules
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Scientists Found a Black Hole That Shouldn’t Exist. Now Physics Has a Problem.
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Violent Collision of Two Black Holes Rippled Across the Universe
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Northern Lights Forecast: 15 States Could See Aurora Borealis Tonight Amid Geomagnetic Storms
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Astronomers capture a new planet during the final stages of its formation process
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Refractory solid condensation detected in an embedded protoplanetary disk
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Astronomers capture dawn of new solar system for 1st time
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Scientists Just Witnessed the Birth of a Solar System for the First Time
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Hidden neighbor: Astronomers confirm long-suspected companion star near Betelgeuse
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When Betelgeuse Explodes, It’s Going to Take Out Another Star
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Astronomers crack 1,000-year-old Betelgeuse mystery with 1st-ever sighting of secret companion (photo, video)
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Betelgeuse’s companion star revealed in new images
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Trump Administration Looking to Slash Environmental Protection Rules for Rocket Launches
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York Space Systems to acquire ATLAS Space Operations in major deal
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York adds software, antenna offerings via acquisition
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Jupiter-like planet torn apart by erupting young star: NASA
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Blue Origin Announces Crew for New Shepard’s 34th Mission
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Astronauts collect blood aboard the ISS photo of the day for July 21, 2025
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Uranus emits its own heat, it turns out. NASA set to probe it
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NASA Reports Plane-Sized Asteroid Nearing Earth
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Houston to Taipei in 2½ hours? Possible, if US-Taiwan spaceport plans take off
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AIT touts 'spaceport' cooperation between US and Taiwan region; experts say plan likely shifts cost burden to island to serve US ambitions
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Taiwan and US mull spaceport cooperation
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LUX-ZEPLIN experiment sets more stringent constraints on cosmic ray-boosted dark matter
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Ghana has a rare treasure, a crater made when a meteor hit Earth: why it needs to be protected
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SpaceX keeps NASA key contracts following Trump spat
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Why Does Matter Exist? Scientists Discover Unexpected New Clue
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It's official - James Webb telescope to investigate an impossible planet that could contain methane, ammonia... and revolutionize science
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Are We Misreading the Universe? New Method Could Unveil Secrets of Colliding Black Holes
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‘Democratizing space’ is more than just adding new players – it comes with questions around sustainability and sovereignty
By Tony Milligan, Adam Fish & Deondre A. Smiles
Largest Mars rock on Earth sold at auction for $5.3 million
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Scientists Saddened as World's Largest Mars Rock Is Sold at Auction
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China Unveils Game-Changing Moon Technology That Converts Lunar Soil Into Usable Fuel and Oxygen for Deep Space Missions
Soil on the Moon could sustain human life, study finds
Scientists extracted water and oxygen from moon dust using sunlight. Could it work on the lunar surface?
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New device turns moon dirt into water and oxygen for lunar bases
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Israeli-led team first to observe star survive black hole and return
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NRO extends data contract with Hydrosat to leverage thermal infrared satellite imagery
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Americans Want Americans To Go (Back) To The Moon (And On To Mars Too)
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Growing number of people want astronauts to visit Mars
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Iran carries out suborbital test of Qased satellite carrier - Tasnim | Iran International
Iran sends a rocket designed to carry satellites into a suborbital test flight
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The World to Go Dark for Six Minutes in August: Witness the Longest Solar Eclipse of the Century
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Space Force, Congress Look to Address Growing Crunch on Launch Facilities
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Space Force rehearses mobilization of private satellite assets during orbital emergencies
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Space Force training for on-orbit warfare in inaugural Resolute Space exercise
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Resolute Space exercise focuses Guardians on countering ‘realistic’ threats to satellites
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U.S. Space Force preps in the Pacific
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Shooting star caught on Fresno Ring camera
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Amateur astrophotographer captures trio of breathtaking nebulas from the Central Australian Desert (photos)
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Norway blasts Sweden as European space race hots up
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Asteroid Deflection Experiment Triggered Unexpected Debris
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Giant space 'boulders' unleashed by NASA's DART mission aren't behaving as expected, revealing hidden risks of deflecting asteroids
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Dozens of BOULDERS flying through space at high speed after Nasa test goes wrong
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New Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting nearby star detected
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"It Could Tell Us the Story of Many Other Solar Systems”: Doomed Exoplanet May Change Our Understanding of Planetary Evolution
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Doomed Giant: Astronomers witness a dying planet spiraling toward its star
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New Horizons Could Find Its Way to Proxima Centauri if it Wanted
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A niche 747 shows up at Oshkosh, also used by NASA
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Mysterious Object Orbits the Sun Once for Every 10 Neptune Orbits—But Why?
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Astronomers have discovered 2020 VN40 moving in sync with Neptune
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NASA Just Discovered Where These Mysterious Space X-Rays Really Come From
NASA’s IXPE Imager Reveals Mysteries of Rare Pulsar
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Thieving Pulsar Spinning 592 Times A Second Reveals New Understanding Of Where Its X-Rays Come From
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NASA’s IXPE tracked a rare pulsar—and found an unexpected power source
NASA X-ray spacecraft reveals secrets of a powerful, spinning neutron star
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How a trailblazing Jewish scientist is still revolutionizing the world of astronomy
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Night sky glows purple above Vera Rubin Observatory photo of the day for July 22, 2025
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FAA Allows SpaceX to Drop Starship Rocket Bits on Sacred Hawaiian Island
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Inside Elon Musk’s plan to rain SpaceX’s rocket debris over Hawaii’s pristine waters
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Government Gives Elon Musk Permission to Detonate Rockets Over a Sacred Hawaian Island
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