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SpaceX's Starship 'Pez dispenser' hatch will launch next-gen Starlink

A new video shared by Elon Musk on Twitter reveals how the next generation of Starlink satellites will be deployed by Starship.

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Dyson spheres in the Milky Way could be where we find aliens

Ben Zuckerman of UCLA has argued that advanced alien life may be found in the Milky Way on Dyson spheres encircling white dwarfs.

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NASA photographs astronauts having an out of this world pizza party

NASA has captured several astronauts enjoying a pizza party with some not-so-good-looking homemade pizzas 250 miles above Earth.

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Elon Musk gives a deep reason why humans must transport life to Mars

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has taken to Twitter to give a very deep reason why humans are obligated to transport life to Mars.

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First glimpses of NASA spacesuits for returning to the moon are here

Images of the next-generation spacesuit developed by Collins Aerospace for NASA and its Artemis missions have surfaced online.

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This NASA spacecraft has caught stunning footage from around Jupiter

Andrea Luck, a NASA citizen scientist, has used the stunning raw imagery from the Juno spacecraft to animate a flyby of Jupiter.

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Mars dust devil shown from Perseverance rover's POV in new NASA GIF

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover managed to capture a dust devil swirling in the Jezero Crater on the 148th sol of its mission.

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Five planets will align this month, and be visible to the naked eye

For the first time since December 2004, planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn will all be aligned in order in the sky.

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NASA just completed a 'planetary defense' exercise involving asteroids

A recent exercise by NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office and the International Asteroid Warning Network is now complete.

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100+ killer asteroids hiding in plain sight have been found

A former NASA astronaut wants to protect Earth from killer asteroids and has developed a software tool to help defend from doom.

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Elon Musk claims Starlink 2.0 is 'an order of magnitude more capable'

Elon Musk has revealed some of the specifications and capabilities of the next generation of Starlink satellites in an interview.

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NASA has selected two companies to build its next-gen spacesuits

NASA has chosen two companies to construct its next-generation spacesuits designed for ISS spacewalks and exploring the moon.

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Viewers thought it was a 'meteor shower', but it was a falling rocket

Onlookers believed the streaks high in the night sky was a meteor shower, but it was later confirmed to be a falling dead rocket.

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NASA captures record breaking helicopter flight on the surface of Mars

NASA has announced it captured a record-breaking flight by a helicopter that's home is the Red Planet, also known as Mars.

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Someone attempted to sabotage China's astronaut launch with a device

Chinese researchers have reported discovering a device that was used in an attempt to sabotage a recent astronaut launch.

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The Milky Way may have four 'malicious extraterrestrial civilizations'

Of the potentially 15,785 civilizations that may inhabit the Milky Way, just over four may be malicious towards others like Earth.

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You can now bid on this Apollo 11 moon dust eaten by cockroaches

A new listing on RR Auction contains unique rarities from the Apollo 11 moon mission, including lunar dust and cockroaches.

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'Super-Earth' exoplanet found in a nearby star's habitable zone

Astronomers have found a Super-Earth exoplanet, named Ross 508 b, orbiting a red dwarf star called Ross 508 36.5 light-years away.

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Asteroid-mining startup books its first mission, launching with SpaceX

Astroforge, a Y Combinator asteroid-mining startup, has scheduled its first mission due to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

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First-ever 'crypto satellite' launched into orbit by SpaceX

SpaceX's Transporter-5 mission saw 59 spacecraft carried to space on May 25th, notably including Cryptosat's Crypto-1 satellite.

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Follow Elon Musk on this tour of SpaceX's massive 'Mechazilla' tower

Elon Musk has given a tour around Starbase to Tim Dodd from the Everyday Astronaut YouTube channel, now scaling the Mechazilla.

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Amazing moon-shaped ice crystal formation appears on ISS window

A photo taken from a window on the International Space Station by Russian cosmonaut Sergei Korsakov shows a unique ice formation.

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Astronaut describes what it was like to see Ukraine war from space

ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer spoke with German broadcaster ARD to recount his time in space watching as the Ukraine war unfolded.

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Scientists have revealed where aliens are most likely to be found

Researchers have identified how planetary systems evolve differently around binary star systems, potentially producing alien life.

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NASA explains this striking irregular galaxy Hubble photographed

NASA and the ESA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped an incredible photograph of an irregular galaxy that glows a beautiful blue.

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A space burial company is preparing to launch 47 people's remains soon

Space burial company Celestis, based out of Texas, will launch the cremated remains of 47 individuals from Florida's Space Coast.

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Earth's most important data needs to be 'off our planet' to be safe

A startup company has proposed that to protect Earth's most important data it needs to be 'off our planet' and somewhere safe.

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Two galaxies colliding 130 million light years away goes viral

An astrophotographer has captured a glorious photograph of two large galaxies colliding 130 million light years from Earth.

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Voyager 1 has sent back peculiar signals to NASA, puzzling scientists

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is sending invalid telemetry data back to mission engineers at the JPL but has yet to enter safe mode.

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Dept. of Defense will launch two nuclear-powered spacecraft in 2027

The Department of Defense's Defense Innovation Unit has awarded contracts to develop space prototypes propelled by nuclear power.

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NASA unveils Hubble's 'magnum opus,' most precise measures yet

The SH0ES team is publishing a new paper on an updated value for the Hubble Constant as determined from Hubble observations.

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Origin of famous alien signal pinpointed to potentially habitable star

The Wow! signal detected by astronomers in August 1977 has had a potential source identified in the 2MASS 19281982-2640123 star.

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NASA reveals plans for how astronauts will be able to live on Mars

NASA has released a comprehensive draft of objectives for its upcoming Moon to Mars endeavor following the first Artemis missions.

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Head of NASA declares China is 'good at stealing' its space tech

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson spoke before a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on May 17th about NASA's budget for 2023.

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NASA provides expected time of death for its dying Mars Lander

Martian dust covering NASA's InSight Mars Lander is reducing its power production, and it will cease operating by the year's end.

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The Super Flower Blood Moon lunar eclipse produced some stunning shots

2022's first total solar eclipse, dubbed the Super Flower Blood Moon, lasted longer than any total lunar eclipse in the 33 years.

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Russia fails miserably at recent 'classified' space launch

Russia has reportedly failed to deliver a 'classified payload' of military purposes to lower-Earth orbit via the Angara-1 rocket.

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NASA has detected the largest Marsquake ever recorded

NASA's Mars InSight lander has detected the largest Marsquake yet on the Red Planet, at magnitude-5 on the moment magnitude scale.

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New NASA video shows best-known black holes and their stellar victims

A new video by NASA compares the size and orbital periods of 22 confirmed X-ray binary systems containing confirmed black holes.

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NASA's Curiosity rover just spotted an alien-looking doorway on Mars

NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars has spotted a peculiar sight on the planet, shaped like a doorway, possibly from a shear fracture.

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Scientists have now grown plants in lunar soil for the first time

Researchers have grown Arabidopsis plants in lunar soil collected by NASA astronauts over fifty years ago on Apollo moon missions.

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Astronomers release first-ever image of our Milky Way's black hole

The Event Horizon Telescope has released the second-ever photo of a black hole, now of Sagittarius A* in the Milky Way galaxy.

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Astronomers observed a white dwarf X-ray explosion for the first time

Thanks to pure coincidence, the eROSITA telescope has captured the first-ever views of an X-ray explosion from a white dwarf star.

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Scientists answers the question of why aliens haven't visited us yet

A Fermi Paradox solution may involve alien civilizations either collapsing or prioritizing homeostasis instead of space travel.

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SpaceX's Starship spotted with strange-looking payload door

SpaceX's Ship 24 Starship prototype currently in development has been spotted with a strange-looking and possibly damaged hatch.

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New jaw-dropping Mars images showcase the Red Planet's complex history

A new set of images of Mars look like someone has run their fingernails across the surface of the Red Planet to create trenches.

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DARPA is creating nuclear rockets for space, and looking for ideas

The U.S. Department of Defense's DARPA is developing nuclear thermal rocket (NTR) engines for its DRACO program in cislunar space.

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'Purple Haze' photographed millions of light years from Earth

The European Southern Observatory released a new photograph snapped by the Very Large Telescope of 'purple haze' in deep space.

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NASA looks to the metaverse to prepare astronauts for living on Mars

NASA has partnered with Epic Games and HeroX to 'challenge' game developers to create virtual reality assets that help with Mars.

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The first-ever reversal of a supermassive black hole was just observed

A mysterious eruption observed from a supermassive black hole seems to be from a spontaneous reversal of its magnetic field.