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XRISM will observe X-rays released by extreme phenomena to assist scientists in studying our universe’s evolution. Comments (0). An illustration shows XRISM set to launch on Sat Aug. 26 as it studies the distant Coma cluster of galaxies in X-rays …

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The basic reason solar eclipses happen is because the moon orbits Earth every 27 days, so often gets roughly between the Earth and the sun. However, solar eclipses do not happen every month. That’s because the plane of the moon’s orbit of Earth is tilted …

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FILE – In this image made from video released by Roscosmos State Space Corporation, the Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the moon lander Luna-25 automatic station takes off from a launch pad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russian Far East on Friday, Aug. 11, …

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On Tuesday (Aug. 22), scientists announced they might have found evidence of the most massive star ever seen ripped apart by a black hole — and the behemoth charged with this crime appears to have literally tossed its stellar victim’s insides into the …

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India will make a historic moon-landing try on Wednesday morning (Aug. 23), and you can watch the action live. The nation’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is scheduled to touch down near the lunar south pole Wednesday around 8:34 a.m. EDT (1234 GMT; …

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A rocket stage hangs suspended on its side in a warehouse hanger. The upper stage for NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket that will power the agency’s Artemis III mission and …

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a dark-gray spacecraft docks to the international space station with the blackness of space. Russia’s Progress 82 cargo craft, packed with three tons of food, fuel, and supplies, …

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These images show the waxing and waning of Neptune’s cloud cover on Neptune. The number of clouds increasingly grows following a peak in the solar cycle. NASA, ESA, Erandi Chavez (UC Berkeley) …

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If a hypothetical Mars crew operated this machine for 14 months those astronauts would create enough oxygen to let them break free of the Martian surface gravity. Comments (0). An illustration of astronauts on Mars, theoretically showing what it’d look …

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For these observations, all eyes will be on Uranus and Neptune. Mission scientists say that by looking at them “from behind,” New Horizons can observe them in a way that we never can on Earth. The images and other data will provide new insight into the …