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A spacecraft approaches with earth and the blackness of space in the background. Russia’s robotic Progress 85 spacecraft approaches the International Space Station on Aug. 24, 2023 (Image …

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Japan is all set to launch a pair of exciting lunar and space science missions on a single rocket. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will send the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, to the moon to demonstrate accurate lunar …

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The Indian Space Research Organization just shared a video capturing the moment when Chandrayaan-3’s Pragyan rover “stepped onto” the moon’s surface for the first time — as well as the first image of the rover and the mission’s lander taken from orbit.

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When supermassive black holes barrel toward collision, they can reach speeds of up to 1/10th the speed of light, new research suggests. Comments (0). two giant black orbs surrounded by two rings of yellow and white swirling gas clouds.

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United Launch Alliance (ULA) rolled its Atlas V rocket to the pad today (Aug. 25) to gear up for the launch of a hush-hush mission next week. The Atlas V made the trek to Space Launch Complex-41 at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, …

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SpaceX plans to launch another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit tonight (Aug. 25), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force …

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A white spacex crew dragon rests atop a falcon 9 rocket. the top is visible. Crew Dragon Endurance at Launch Complex-39A, ahead of the planned Crew-7 astronaut launch …

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Detailed understanding of how its concentrations vary over the course of a day and a year will help authorities to better inform the public so that people can better protect their health. Nitrogen oxide is, however, only one of many toxic pollutants that …

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Karol Bobko, an Air Force pilot who joined NASA as an astronaut in 1969 and then waited 14 years before going into space, piloting the first voyage of the shuttle Challenger nearly three years before it exploded soon after liftoff, died on Aug.

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The observation was made using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. Space-based observatories such as the Hubble Space Telescope have observed vortex-like storms — which appear as dark spots — swirling …