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US Space Force picks Rocket Lab and Stoke Space to compete for national security launches
Private launch companies Rocket Lab and Stoke Space have been selected to compete for future U.S. national security space launches.
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Space miso is nuttier than Earth miso — but it's still miso
Scientists have successfully fermented miso aboard the International Space Station, marking the first deliberate food fermentation in space that may open up new culinary possibilities for astronauts on long-term missions.
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You can still get 73% Starz for three months and watch some Marvel content following the Avengers: Doomsday cast announcement
This streaming deal is a great alternative to Disney Plus as you can get three months of Starz for just $2.99 and watch Marvel content for less.
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Incredible photo shows supermassive black hole blowing a jet of matter into interstellar space
A spiral galaxy known as NGC 4945 exhibits powerful winds of material blowing from the supermassive black hole located at its core in a new photo taken by the Very Large Telescope in Chile.
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Drone pilot who flew over Vandenberg Space Force Base sentenced to 4 months in jail
A California man has been sentenced to jail for flying a drone over Vandenberg Space Force Base and photographing the installation.
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Plush polar bear with penguin art floats as Fram2 zero-g indicator in polar orbit
The first astronauts to enter a polar orbit chose the obvious animal to serve as their zero-g indicator: a plush polar bear. The doll also has an emperor penguin embroidered on its chest.
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Northern Lights in Mexico? Low-latitudes may be more vulnerable than expected to geomagnetic storms
Mother's Day 2024 heralded Mexico's most powerful geomagnetic storm in two decades. Here's why scientists say this is something to track.
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NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope takes its 1st cosmic images: 'The instrument team nailed it'
NASA's new infrared telescope named "SPHEREx" has officially opened its eyes to the cosmos.
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New alien abduction film 'Watch the Skies' is giving us Swedish Spielberg vibes (video)
Check out this peek at new alien abduction thriller "Watch the Skies" coming to theaters May 9.
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'I’d get on in a heartbeat': Starliner astronauts would fly on Boeing spacecraft again despite malfunctions (video)
NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore both say they'd ride on Boeing's Starliner again, despite the issues the capsule had on its first crewed flight.
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Rare 'double sunrise' captured in Canada by intrepid solar eclipse chasers (photos)
Cloud-dodging eclipse chasers in New Brunswick and Québec, Canada, captured the solar horns, reflections and all kinds of weird views as the sun rose partially eclipsed.
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Déjà vu: President Trump nominates Greg Autry again to be NASA's financial chief
President Trump has nominated space policy expert Greg Autry to be NASA's chief financial officer, as he did back in 2020 to no avail.
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Cryptocurrency billionaire watches SpaceX rocket launch on the way to his own SpaceX rocket launch
Cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang and his Fram2 private astronaut crew got a two-for-one deal when they watched a rocket launch ahead of their own launch on March 31.
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DARPA accidentally detects SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket reentry by listening to Earth's atmosphere
Researchers with the U.S. military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have successfully used Earth's atmosphere as a sensor to detect a distant disturbance.
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Floating blue-eyed robot keeps watch on the ISS: Space photo of the day
Looking like a soccer ball with glowing blue eyes, the Japanese Experiment Module Internal Ball Camera-2 is put to test aboard the International Space Station.
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Million-mile-long solar whirlwind could help solve sun's greatest mysteries (video)
Europe's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has chronicled the development of the magnetic escape of plasma driven out by a powerful magnetic reconnection event.
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Watch chilling 1st views of Earth's poles seen by SpaceX Fram2 astronauts (video)
The first images of Earth's poles from the Fram2 Crew Dragon have been uploaded from the orbiting spacecraft, and the views are breathtaking.
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NASA's X-59 'quiet' supersonic jet aces key 'cruise control' test ahead of 1st flight
NASA's "quiet" new supersonic jet, the X-59, just passed a key engine test, bringing it closer to its first flight later this year.
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Scientists used JWST instruments 'wrong' on purpose to capture direct images of exoplanets
The JWST was used in a creative way to capture direct images of distant worlds.
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Sun unleashes powerful M5.6 solar flare and Earth is in the firing line — are auroras incoming?
After last week's explosive X-flare, sunspot AR4046 is at it again! Could this latest eruption bring stormy space weather to Earth?
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