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Rookie crewmates kept things fresh for Ax-4 astronaut Peggy Whitson: 'It's always great to relive a little bit of that first time'

Fri, 08/01/2025 - 3:09pm
Ax-4 commander Peggy Whitson just extended her American duration record on the International Space Station. She also served as coach to the three rookie astronauts who flew with her.
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SpaceX just launched disease-causing bacteria to the International Space Station

Fri, 08/01/2025 - 2:00pm
SpaceX just launched the Crew-11 astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA — along with an interesting bacterial experiment.
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Satellites are helping protect critically endangered desert elephants. Here's how

Fri, 08/01/2025 - 1:00pm
GPS tracking and high-resolution satellite images are helping humans coexist with endangered elephants in western Namibia.
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Best camera for astro now $300 cheaper: This Nikon bundle comes with plenty of extras

Fri, 08/01/2025 - 12:06pm
The Nikon Z8 was rated as our best overall camera for astrophotography, and is $600 off on Amazon, perfect for capturing the Lyrid meteor shower!
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SpaceX launches Crew-11 astronauts to the ISS for NASA on milestone Crew Dragon flight (video)

Fri, 08/01/2025 - 12:00pm
SpaceX launched the Crew-11 on Aug. 1, sending four astronauts to the International Space Station on the record-breaking sixth flight of its Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft.
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New discovery at CERN could hint at why our universe is made up of matter and not antimatter

Fri, 08/01/2025 - 12:00pm
A new finding at CERN on the French-Swiss border brings us closer to answering why matter dominates over its opposite, antimatter.
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Exotic 'blazar' is part of most extreme double black hole system ever found, crooked jet suggests

Fri, 08/01/2025 - 11:00am
A beam of particles speeding away from a monstrous black hole is severely kinked, suggesting that the black hole is actually part of the most extreme binary system known.
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Big lake in Quebec suddenly disappears, satellite finds | Space photo of the day for August 1, 2025

Fri, 08/01/2025 - 10:00am
The lake was completely drained in the spring of 2025.
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Astronaut savors the moment and shares a stunning aurora shot | On the International Space Station July 28-Aug. 1, 2025

Fri, 08/01/2025 - 10:00am
The four Expedition 73 members on SpaceX's Crew-10 mission prepared to come home, while also got the International Space Station ready for its next residents.
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Stunning 'sun dogs' could sparkle in alien skies, James Webb Space Telescope suggests

Fri, 08/01/2025 - 9:00am
High-speed winds on exoplanet WASP-17b may align quartz crystals in its atmosphere and create dazzling light effects like "sun dogs."
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SpaceX fires up Starship spacecraft ahead of 10th test flight (video, photos)

Fri, 08/01/2025 - 8:00am
SpaceX performed a single-engine "static fire" trial with its newest Starship spacecraft on Thursday (July 31), to help prep the vehicle for an upcoming test flight.
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Did 'primordial' black holes born right after the Big Bang help our universe's 1st stars form?

Fri, 08/01/2025 - 6:00am
New research suggests that primordial black holes could have played an important role in the formation of the universe's first stars, but did they help or hinder?
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Einstein was wrong (slightly) about quantum physics, new version of the famous double-slit experiment reveals

Thu, 07/31/2025 - 5:00pm
A new version of the famous double-slit experiment showed that it's impossible to measure light as both a wave and a particle at the same time, thanks to quantum physics' uncertainty principle.
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Is life widespread throughout the cosmos? Complex organic molecules found in planet-birthing disk

Thu, 07/31/2025 - 4:34pm
Complex organic molecules that could be the precursors to the building blocks of life as we know it have been discovered in a disk of gas and dust swirling around an infant star.
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SpaceX launches 19 Starlink satellites from California, lands rocket on ship at sea (video)

Thu, 07/31/2025 - 2:47pm
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 19 Starlink satellites from California's central coast today (July 31), then came back to Earth for a landing on a ship at sea.
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Satellites reveal a hidden lake burst through Greenland Ice Sheet in 2014, causing major flooding and a deep crater

Thu, 07/31/2025 - 2:00pm
A hidden lake beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet unexpectedly drained more than a decade ago, fracturing the ice surface and forming a large crater — an event only recently uncovered by Earth-observing satellites.
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will launch next space tourism mission on Aug. 3

Thu, 07/31/2025 - 1:00pm
Blue Origin is targeting Sunday (Aug. 3) for the launch of its next suborbital tourism mission, which will send crypto billionaire Justin Sun and five other people to the final frontier.
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SpaceX, NASA scrub Crew-11 astronaut launch due to weather (video)

Thu, 07/31/2025 - 12:46pm
SpaceX scrubbed the launch of its Crew-11 astronaut mission for NASA just a minute before liftoff today (July 31) after clouds intruded.
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Sculptor galaxy image provides brilliant details that will help astronomers study how stars form

Thu, 07/31/2025 - 10:00am
The Sculptor galaxy is a treasure trove of information that astronomers around the world cannot wait to pick apart.
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Venus reaches its highest point in the eastern predawn sky on Aug. 1: Here's how to see it

Thu, 07/31/2025 - 10:00am
Venus reaches its highest altitude above the eastern horizon in 2025 on Aug. 1.
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