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Good news for Mars settlers? Red Planet glaciers are mostly pure water ice, study suggests
Martian glaciers are mostly pure ice across the Red Planet, suggesting they might potentially be useful resources for any explorers that might land there one day, a new study finds.
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Saturn's largest moon Titan casts a colossal shadow in breathtaking amateur portrait (photo)
Efrain Morales captured the image of Titan's shadow darkening Saturn on July 18, while the gas giant was over 800 million miles from Earth.
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Collaboration or collapse: Why Earth observation must be a global mission
Satellites don't stop at borders and neither should science.
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Powerful NISAR Earth-observing satellite loaded up for launch in India | Space photo of the day for July 30, 2025
The satellite will scan the Earth twice every 12 days.
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'The Smithsonian Institution owns the Discovery.' Museum resists Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' plan to move space shuttle to Houston
The Smithsonian Institution says NASA relinquished full ownership of Space Shuttle Discovery, but Congress wants to force the vehicle's relocation.
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'The most sophisticated radar we've ever built': US-Indian NISAR satellite launches to track tiny changes on Earth's surface (video)
The U.S. and India just launched NISAR, a powerful radar satellite that will be able to monitor changes in Earth's surface that are as small as a centimeter.
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James Webb Space Telescope finds giant, lonely exoplanets can build their own planetary friends without a parent star
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have made the shock discovery that giant rogue exoplanets can grow their own planetary systems without needing a parent star.
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Hubble Space Telescope spots rogue planet with a little help from Einstein: 'It was a lucky break'
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a new rogue planet that was orphaned from its home planetary system. The discovery was possible with a little luck and some help from Einstein.
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SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida (video)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 28 Starlink satellites was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Tuesday, July 29, 2025.
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Australia's 1st orbital rocket, Gilmour Space's Eris, fails on historic debut launch (video)
Gilmour Space made history today (July 29), conducting the first-ever orbital launch attempt with an Australian-built rocket. That vehicle, named Eris, didn't get very far.
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SpaceX moves Starship to launch pad for testing ahead of Flight 10 (photos)
SpaceX has moved its Starship spacecraft to the launch pad for testing ahead of the vehicle's 10th flight, which is expected to take place next month.
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The 1st trailer for James Cameron's 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' promises a stunning three-way battle for the future of Pandora (video)
James Cameron's third Avatar movie is turning the rules upside down, introducing a nefarious Na'vi clan as the human invaders go all-out.
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Watch India and NASA launch the powerful NISAR Earth-observing satellite on July 30
India will launch the NISAR Earth-observing spacecraft, a joint effort of ISRO and NASA, on July 30, and you can watch the action live.
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Waterworld we live in: 30 years on from 'Waterworld', Kevin Costner's watery 'Mad Max' is better than you remember
Unfairly dismissed as a flop on release, 'Waterworld' is a spectacular example of the '90s action genre. If only they didn't give him gills…
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Biggest cosmic explosion on record since the Big Bang is revealing the secrets of gamma-ray bursts
The BOAT is the ruler of all gamma-ray bursts, releasing as much energy in seconds as the sun will in 10 billion years — and it could be revealing the secrets of these extreme cosmic blasts.
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Astronaut arteries are A-OK after living on the International Space Station, per a new study
Living in space changes the human body — but arteries seem particularly resilient to microgravity's effects.
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Here we go again! Controversial paper questions whether interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is 'possibly hostile' alien tech in disguise
A controversial new paper questions whether the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is a potentially dangerous alien probe, similar to claims made about 'Oumuamua. But experts have called it "nonsense".
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See the crescent moon shine beside blue star Spica at sunset on July 30
Spica and the moon will appear over the southwestern horizon at sunset
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A familiar face returns to Starfleet in 1st trailer for 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' (video)
'You here now. You weave together the future. So go out and seek, explore'
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India rolls out rocket for July 30 launch of powerful NISAR Earth-observing satellite (video)
India recently rolled out the rocket that will launch the NISAR Earth-observing spacecraft, a joint effort between ISRO and NASA. Liftoff is scheduled for the morning of July 30.
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