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'I'll be damned if that's the story we write': Acting NASA Administrator Duffy vows not to lose moon race to China
'Wake up and ask yourself, 'Is what I'm doing helping us get back to the moon?' … If it's not, stop doing it.'
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SpaceX launches powerful satellite to orbit for Indonesian telecom company
It was the 114th Falcon 9 mission of 2025 already.
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Astronomers finally find elusive, dust-shrouded supermassive black holes at ‘Cosmic Dawn’
"This shows how effective the approach of 'Discover with Subaru Telescope, explore with James Webb' can be."
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108 million degrees! Solar flares are far hotter than thought, study suggests
The new finding may solve an "astrophysics mystery that has stood for nearly half a century."
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James Webb Space Telescope studies a 'failed star' named 'The Accident' to solve an old mystery of Jupiter and Saturn
"Sometimes it's the extreme objects that help us understand what's happening in the average ones."
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Sun dogs, rainbows and glories are celestial wonders – and they may appear in alien skies too
These celestial wonders can tell us a lot about the state of the atmosphere at home on Earth as well as on other planets.
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Infrared instruments could spot exotic ice on other worlds
Phases of ice that exist naturally only on frozen moons could be detected using infrared spectroscopy, according to new laboratory experiments.
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James Webb Space Telescope images enormous star shooting out twin jets 8 light-years long
The beams hint at the true scale of the massive star that spawned them.
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SpaceX Starlink satellite photobombs orbital view of secret Chinese air base (photo)
"Capturing another satellite like this in an Earth-observation image is extremely rare."
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Hubble telescope spies glowing galaxy in a cosmic 'Crane' | Space photo of the day for Sept. 11, 2025
Though NGC 7456 looks like a modest spiral galaxy, new Hubble and XMM-Newton observations reveal a bustling system with star-forming regions and an active core.
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Did NASA's Perseverance rover actually find evidence of life on Mars? We need to haul its samples home to find out, scientists say
"The idea was for our payload to get us just up to the potential biosignature designation and have the rest of the story told by instruments here on Earth."
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Watch Russia launch 2.8 tons of cargo toward the ISS today
Liftoff is scheduled for 11:54 a.m. ET today (Sept. 11).
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SpaceX buys $17 billion worth of satellite spectrum to beef up Starlink broadband service
SpaceX promises a step change in performance for cell phone users around the world.
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Scientists find evidence of flowing water on Ryugu’s ancient parent asteroid. 'It was a genuine surprise!'
"This forces us to rethink the starting conditions for our planet’s water system."
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Can we safely deflect a killer asteroid without making it worse? Only if we avoid the gravitational 'keyhole,' scientists say
Depending on where you smack a planet-threatening asteroid, it might ricochet back to Earth.
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Gravitational wave detector confirms theories of Einstein and Hawking: 'This is the clearest view yet of the nature of black holes'
"GW250114 is the loudest gravitational wave event we have detected to date; it was like a whisper becoming a shout."
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Did NASA's Perseverance Mars rover find evidence of ancient Red Planet life? The plot thickens
"There is no evidence of microbes on Mars today, but if any had been present on ancient Mars, they too might have reduced sulfate minerals to form sulfides in such a lake at Jezero crater."
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SpaceX launches 1st 21 satellites for advanced new US military constellation
The "Tranche 1 Transport Layer" network will eventually consists of 126 satellites in low Earth orbit.
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Working on a 39-foot telescope dish | Space photo of the day for Sept. 10, 2025
Chile is a hotspot for telescopes peering up into deep space to study structures like stars, black holes, dark matter and galaxies.
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The weird ringed dwarf planet Quaoar may have an extra moon, astronomers discover
"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — going around Quaoar."
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