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Astrophotographer captures the Running Chicken Nebula in impeccable detail

6 hours 15 min ago
Check out this incredibly detailed image of the Running Chicken Nebula — IC 2944 — captured by astrophotographer Rod Prazeres.
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China unveils video of its moon base plans, which weirdly includes a NASA space shuttle

7 hours 16 min ago
A video outlining China's moon base plans depicts a wide number of concepts, including surface sample return operations, a lander and rover, and supporting orbital satellites.
Categories: Astronomy

NASA's TESS exoplanet hunter may have spotted its 1st rogue planet

8 hours 16 min ago
NASA's exoplanet hunter TESS may have detected its first free-floating planet with a little help from Einstein.
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This spacecraft is headed to NASA's asteroid-crash aftermath — but first, it'll stop by Mars

9 hours 16 min ago
During a gravity assist with Mars, Hera will study the moon Deimos.
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China's Shenzhou 17 astronauts return to Earth after 6 months in space (video)

9 hours 19 min ago
China's Shenzhou 17 astronauts touched down safely this morning (April 30), bringing their six-month mission to a successful close.
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Boeing Starliner 1st astronaut flight: Live updates

9 hours 48 min ago
Boeing will launch its first-ever Starliner astronaut mission for NASA as early as May 6, 2024
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'Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi' and 'Andor' blast onto 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray today

10 hours 15 min ago
Disney+ Star Wars series "Obi-Wan Kenobi" and "Andor" land on home video starting April 30 in both 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray steelbook formats.
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Space threats, NORAD upgrade may spur new private defense spending in Canada

11 hours 16 min ago
The United States and Canada aim to upgrade NORAD to deal with emergent space threats from nations like China or Russia. Canada will hold an industry day May 1 to gather more ideas.
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SpaceX vet's startup Portal Space Systems comes out of stealth mode

12 hours 15 min ago
Portal has developed a new satellite bus called Supernova that the company says will allow unprecedented mobility in Earth orbit and beyond.
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Scientists unravel mysteries of gamma-ray bursts — the universe's most powerful explosions

13 hours 16 min ago
Gamma-ray bursts are the universe's most powerful explosions, generating more energy in seconds than the sun will in billions of years — and scientists are slowly learning more about these eruptions.
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SpaceX's Starship could help this start-up beam clean energy from space. Here's how (video)

15 hours 16 min ago
SpaceX's Starship will make space-based solar power cheaper than nuclear, gas and coal-based electricity generation, start-up Virtus Solis believes.
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Evidence for Planet 9 found in icy bodies sneaking past Neptune

Mon, 04/29/2024 - 8:00pm
The hypothetical ninth planet may be slingshotting Oort Cloud objects onto orbits that come closer to the sun than Neptune does.
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NASA crew announced for simulated Mars mission next month

Mon, 04/29/2024 - 6:00pm
NASA picked a crew of four volunteers to undergo a simulation of life on Mars. The project will begin on May 10.
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NASA's Viper moon rover gets its 'neck' and 'head' installed for mission later this year

Mon, 04/29/2024 - 5:00pm
With its "mighty mast," NASA's Polar Exploration Rover dubbed VIPER continues to be prepped for its mission to the moon slated for late 2024.
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China releases world's most detailed moon atlas (video)

Mon, 04/29/2024 - 4:00pm
The atlas, which is available in Chinese and English, depicts the surface of the moon with a scale of 1:2.5 million. It highlights many intriguing geological features, such as impact craters.
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What would happen if the moon disappeared?

Mon, 04/29/2024 - 3:00pm
What would happen if our closest neighbor, the moon, disappeared? Here we explore the possible effects it could have on the environment and life on Earth.
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Horsehead Nebula rears its head in gorgeous new James Webb Space Telescope images (video)

Mon, 04/29/2024 - 2:00pm
The James Webb Telescope has zoomed in on the Horsehead Nebula, capturing slices of this stunning star-forming region close to Earth in an entirely new light.
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China to launch sample-return mission to the moon's far side on May 3

Mon, 04/29/2024 - 1:30pm
China reportedly plans to launch its Chang'e 6 sample-return mission toward the moon's mysterious far side on Friday (May 3).
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Boeing Starliner astronauts conduct dress rehearsal ahead of May 6 launch (photos, video)

Mon, 04/29/2024 - 12:59pm
Boeing Starliner's 1st astronaut crew continues their training, even in quarantine. After finishing a big dress rehearsal on April 26, practice continues ahead of the scheduled May 6 launch to the ISS.
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Meet the crew launching on Boeing's 1st Starliner astronaut flight

Mon, 04/29/2024 - 12:30pm
NASA astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Suni Williams are slated to launch on Boeing’s first crewed test flight of its Starliner capsule, flying to the International Space Station on May 6.
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