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Monster star gains magnetic personality following stellar merger
A rare massive star possessing a magnetic field could have produced its dynamo after merging with another star.
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Car-sized asteroid gives Earth a super-close shave with flyby closer than some satellites
A newly discovered space rock will harmlessly pass by Earth today. Still, at less than a tenth the distance to the moon, asteroid 2024 GJ2 will miss the planet by the skin of its teeth.
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'Star Wars: Tales of the Empire' sets surprise May the 4th debut on Disney Plus (video)
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. Before The Acolyte, Star Wars animation will return to our screens with Tales of the Empire, a brand-new anthology series.
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Gravitational waves reveal 1st-of-its-kind merger between neutron star and mystery object
The mystery object, which falls right within the mass-gap range, sheds light on a long-sought, murky realm.
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Trains, planes and a total solar eclipse! Watching the moon block the sun was a transportation adventure (exclusive)
My family has been in transportation for generations, in planes and trains. I finally got my two ancestral lines to meet, eclipse-style, at a Canadian rail station near an airport.
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Soviet-era cosmonaut Vladimir Aksyonov, who flew into space twice, dies at 89
Soviet-era cosmonaut Vladimir Aksyonov, who flew into space twice, has died at the age of 89. Aksyonov logged almost 12 days in space and orbited Earth 189 times.
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Space weather can make it hard to predict satellite trajectories. Here's why that's a problem
Satellites in low Earth orbit can be hundreds of miles off their expected trajectories when bad space weather hits.
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Stars make a bigger mess in old galaxies, and scientists just figured out why
More evolved galaxies demonstrate a greater range of stellar motions compared to the orderly, circular orbits of stars like our sun in the Milky Way.
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Top total solar eclipses to look out for over the next decade
We explore seven of the best solar eclipses to look out for over the next 10 years.
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Japanese astronauts will join NASA moon landings in return for lunar rover
The first non-American to walk on the moon will be a Japanese astronaut. Two JAXA astronauts will fly on future Artemis landing missions in return for Japan providing a pressurized moon rover.
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Why Peter Higgs leaves a massive legacy in the field of physics
On April 8, 2024, Peter Higgs passed away. Pioneering the discovery of the Higgs boson, the mark the theoretical physicist has left on physics is immense.
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See Jupiter close to a crescent moon (Mars near Saturn, too) in the 'View a Planet Day' night sky
Jupiter and a slim crescent moon are the stand-out night sky sight in the evening sky right now.
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What happened when the moon 'turned itself inside out' billions of years ago?
The moon underwent a reversal around 4.2 billion years ago, flipping itself "inside out" after a giant impact to create the picture of the faithful lunar companion that we see today.
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Could these big expandable habitats help humanity settle the moon and Mars?
Max Space is building habitat modules that could expand to enormous sizes in space, giving humanity plenty of room to live in orbit as well as on the moon and Mars.
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US needs new space tech or it 'will lose,' Space Force chief says
Space Force's Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman stressed the need for the U.S. to partner with industry to develop and field new space technologies in order to avoid losing a future conflict.
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What it was like to chase totality in South Texas
Chasing eclipses in South Texas meant dealing with lots of hurdles, yes, but also lots of gratitude.
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Prime Video's 'Fallout' launches into the post-apocalyptic TV frontier (video)
Grab your Vault suit and a Nuka Cola for a sci-fi romp through the wasteland in "Fallout," Amazon Prime Video's latest sci-fi gaming adventure for TV.
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China moving at 'breathtaking speed' in final frontier, Space Force says
China is ratcheting up its space capabilities at an impressive clip, with an eye toward potentially ending the United States’ long-held space supremacy, U.S. officials say.
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Astronauts' photos capture April 8 solar eclipse from Earth orbit
As bucket list items go, seeing a total solar eclipse from space might seem like a tall order. But on Monday (April 8), Michael Barratt saw an eclipse from off the planet.
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Thousands of hidden meteorites could be lost forever as they sink in Antarctic ice, taking their cosmic secrets with them
A new study warns that 5,000 meteorites could be sinking beneath Antarctica's icy surface every year as a result of climate change, depriving scientists of vital information about our solar system.
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